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http://www.wordjazz.com/ Two offerings. On Feb 11, 8:37 am, nominal9 <[email protected]> wrote: > Descriptive poetry of music, Don? > I don't know of any off the top of my head...There have been attempts > at "sound" poems, Ive read about the Futurist Movement, I''m most > familiar with the Italian branch, around WWII usually associated with > Fascism.... these futurists liked fascism and fascism liked them. > Anyway, Futurist poetry was very, "sounds-like" oriented.. the authors > would fill their written "poems" with all sorts of sound evocations... > sort of like the "Wham" , "Biff", "Pow", of some campy comic book > renditions... like the old Batman TV show... if you go back that far. > But these Futurist sound effects (and type effects as well, such as > different type scripts and capitalizations) more often than not > related to sounds of war or... fireworks.... they had a thing about > fireworks, even as displays in and of themselves. Anyway, the Futurist > Movement is usually attributed to Marinetti... here's a You-Tube link > to some of his "poetry" performed... the language is Italian, but just > listen for the sound effects.... explosions and tank sounds, > mostly.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn0dkz9Polg > The "book" is titled "Zang Tumb Tumb"... Futurism did go a ways as an > artistic movement... it's still around... probably had something to do > with the birth of Heavy Metal Music and other sorts of.... > commonplace... popular > artforms.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Tommaso_Marinetti > I get a kick of some of those things....onomatopaiec written sound > effects.... especially of fireworks displays.... who would have > thought.... > nominal9 > > On Feb 11, 12:49 am, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I just read ''Howl." "Hap" has been usurped. I've never read > > anything so famous that was this bad. In my opinion. I guess it > > comes down to how something moves you(or doesn't). Also I can't make > > any connection between myself and the poet. Except maybe that we both > > like jazz. > > > Speaking of music; does anyone know any poems offhand that describe > > music? I read a review recently on different wines and was amazed at > > the choice of adjectives and metaphors used. It would be interesting > > to read a well written poem describing a sonata or jazz performance. > > > dj > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM, ornamentalmind > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I concur w/Ian on those two. "...T.S. Eliot's *The Wasteland and Allen > > > Ginsburg's *Howl ...". > > > > Oh, I did like a few of Ferlinghetti's works in "A Coney Island of the > > > Mind". > > > My guess is that some here who haven't read him may enjoy it. For a > > > quick taste: > > >http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7233 > > > > On Feb 10, 7:28 am, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I forgot to say, my two favourite poems -- based on the number of times I > > >> read them -- are T.S. Eliot's *The > > >> Wasteland<http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html> > > >> * and Allen Ginsburg's *Howl <http://www.wussu.com/poems/agh.htm>*. > > > >> Ian- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
