Thx., Don. I'm tempted to say "no method; I just
writes 'em", which in a way is true, but isn't the whole
story. Many of my poems are done within some kind of structure
(these short recent ones are Decimas, an old Spanish form, tho the
rhyme-schemes are my own invention) but there are plenty that don't use
pre-established structures. (They all have structures; often it is
one which forms as the poem is being written. Sometimes such poems
"invent" a form which I then use for other poems.) Other
processes I use in various combinations are transduction
("fake" translating, even of my own words before I write them),
anaphore, reverse or mirror structures of various kinds, etc. But
these are all just hangers; the "content" is
non-methodological, it's my attempt to try to understand myself.
There's also a sense in which I don't understand what I'm doing at all,
which is why I keep doing it: in order to try to understand what I'm
doing! It's all a wonderful mystery...
Onword,
John
At 08:36 AM 7/13/01 -0400, you wrote:
John, I enjoy your poems. What method do you
use? You get some great word/image /sound combinations. -Don
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