tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post1790901788950109594..comments2023-04-10T14:29:56.153+01:00Comments on Raw Light: poetry & opinion since 2005: Notes on a Long PoemUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-42579193281255864622008-04-10T23:41:00.000+01:002008-04-10T23:41:00.000+01:00Happy to lend you my copy for as long as you want:...Happy to lend you my copy for as long as you want: email the usual addy with postal address etc.<BR/><BR/>ABJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-71841102468652096692008-04-10T23:32:00.000+01:002008-04-10T23:32:00.000+01:00Fascinating! It sounds almost like Jack Kerouac's ...Fascinating! It sounds almost like Jack Kerouac's <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road" REL="nofollow">'On the Road'</A> writing technique - if you can call something that organic and ad hoc a technique.Jane Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590668593487445482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-52652112417207445072008-04-10T23:25:00.000+01:002008-04-10T23:25:00.000+01:00Also interesting is A.R. Ammons' book 'Tape for th...Also interesting is A.R. Ammons' book 'Tape for the Turn of the Year': a month's worth of almost daily journal-poems typed on a thin roll of adding-machine tape, which forced the narrow margins of it. And the daily ritual making it as unpremeditated as possible. Couldn't go back and re-write either: the tape rolled ever on.<BR/><BR/>In the end, about 200 book pages.<BR/><BR/>You could do the same thing in Word these days, of course!<BR/><BR/>ABJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-1105302139740853852008-04-10T22:54:00.000+01:002008-04-10T22:54:00.000+01:00Your wish is my command. Now if I can only find th...Your wish is my command. Now if I can only find that piece of scrap paper ...Jane Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590668593487445482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-1485478107672660272008-04-10T18:58:00.000+01:002008-04-10T18:58:00.000+01:00Yes. We would!xxYes. We would!<BR/>xxBohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333815636018847583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-90580663436576197112008-04-10T11:05:00.000+01:002008-04-10T11:05:00.000+01:00When first trying to decide on a form for this lon...When first trying to decide on a form for this long poem, I looked at various other long poems, including Dart, to see how the narrative and the form were handled, and to take lessons from that. <BR/><BR/>I must blog my findings at some point, as I think at least a few people - and that's usually enough for me! - would be interested to see several long modern poems compared in a pro-active way, i.e. not as an academic working on a thesis, but as a practitioner unashamedly looking for ideas to steal.JANE HOLLANDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106938110286631948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16608180.post-49374011101767601482008-04-10T02:16:00.000+01:002008-04-10T02:16:00.000+01:00The topic of how the chaos of notes are transforme...The topic of how the chaos of notes are transformed into the order of a long poem is a fascinating subject Donald Hall said something about inspiration often coming near the end of the long long process of reowrk, revision, a re-vision. <I>Dart</I> stands out as something distinctive; Oswald's remarks are interesting and useful.David Lumsdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04483172967435196277noreply@blogger.com