William Carlos Williams, who delivered more than two thousand babies as a doctor, said: *No ideas but in things.* Of late your poems have gone abstract. No one would argue with the idea here, but the words written about your home, your curtains, your sewing, gave me the truth about the lived life. Show, Don't Tell: The writer's vocation.
Haiku is physical, it is all *out there*: The reader creates the emotion. Read online .. *Historical view of W.C. Williams: No Ideas But in Things by Ed Wickliffe.* Triggerfish,
Hameldaeme quarrels with Hameldaeme ... W.B. Yeats said: *Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.* Read online: Analysis of The Man Who Dreamed of Fairyland.
On the other hand, read online ... *A Place for Abstraction: Revisiting No Ideas But in Things.* Annie Finch. The Poetry Witch.
I read Finch and I have to say I never imagined I'd ever be reading the philosophy of writing poetry!
At the moment my aim is really only to write 17 syllables a day. Watching for topics and distilling them keeps me occupied and if I turn out something with merit that's a bonus 😉
Or even, perhaps, "And you listen."
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DeleteWilliam Carlos Williams, who delivered more than two thousand babies as a doctor, said: *No ideas but in things.*
ReplyDeleteOf late your poems have gone abstract. No one would argue with the idea here, but the words written about your home, your curtains, your sewing, gave me the truth about the lived life. Show, Don't Tell: The writer's vocation.
Haiku is physical, it is all *out there*: The reader creates the emotion.
Read online ..
*Historical view of W.C. Williams: No Ideas But in Things by Ed Wickliffe.*
Triggerfish,
Hameldaeme quarrels with Hameldaeme ...
ReplyDeleteW.B. Yeats said:
*Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.*
Read online: Analysis of The Man Who Dreamed of Fairyland.
On the other hand, read online ...
*A Place for Abstraction: Revisiting No Ideas But in Things.*
Annie Finch. The Poetry Witch.
I read Finch and I have to say I never imagined I'd ever be reading the philosophy of writing poetry!
DeleteAt the moment my aim is really only to write 17 syllables a day. Watching for topics and distilling them keeps me occupied and if I turn out something with merit that's a bonus 😉
Sadly true, and currently very, very pertinent. And I would agree with you and Graham about the need to listen. Carefully.
ReplyDeleteI think many people are so unheard and unseen that just the honest intention to hear is cause for celebration
DeleteGood one.
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