By bill bissett
1. how do poems work in general
listn 2 th pome hot breths is saying wher n how it takes yu n its layring uv thots colours n nameing touches gathrs n presents n its vois voices sound tone rhythm how dew yu c n heer ths nite fall on yu n wher yu ar what wud yu say abt it condensd sweeping intimate politikul th breth uv th pome th life uv th pome th innr n outtr shaping s uv th pome s
i dont think pomes work in anee way in general tho a pome can elevate dsspell
change th topik make sound make vizual make sens make unsens
narrate un narrate fuse make politikul make visyunaree make spiritual
make art make found make simultaneouslee contradiktoree realms n
parallell realms uv consciousness n uttrans make dreem make epik make minimalism make trajektoree xclamaysyuns stillness harbour
n raging seez n ocean make reel take us sumwher els take us within
ourselvs its selves its pulsing bodee being if a pome starts 2 cum 2 yu
let it
n follow it how it goes weevs n travls thru yr being langwage centrs ar
all ovr th bodee n run m.c.escher
like thru th brain also chagal like also morriseau like also in
sum lites rembrant n in skulptur louise nevelson barbara
hepworth sew th bodee uv th pome n following its thred s cummin 2 yu
thru yu
has mass spirit add in add ons take aways conversaysyunal vois s
lyrik voices yerning presens kreetshurs
n demons sylabuls nouns adjektivs gertrude stein poetree is
making love 2 nouns n prose is making love 2 verbs john keats sd
a thing uv beautee is a joy 4evr n that is all yu know n all yu
need 2 kno a pome entrs yu develops within yu envelops yu 4
a whil finds itself thru yu like a prson yu speek it n th thredding takes yu
lives thru yu 4 a whil til its dun sumtimes reel life sumtimes imaginativ
sumtimes th layring palimpsesting thruout its bodee agreements uv
sound n sound s objekts nouns colours jestures tropes
carree 4ward its enerjee s ar its enerjeez n yu follow it write it trans
kribe it wev onlee bin dewing ths 4 thousand plus sum yeers thats creativ
writtn langwage langwage itself originalee piktographik was ledgers how
manee bushels uv what or how manee what wer in th warehous thn a veree
long time aftr creativ writing startid sew in writing poetree we ar dewing
a fairlee recent thing aktivitee but th original sours uv writing taking stock
supples th binaree naytur uv langwage n its influenses on ourselvs that in
creativ writing n nu uses uv creativ writing langwage we now oftn try 2 get
byond n find n unkovr say
th image in th word in th lettr th pickshur in th shape th image n ovrlayze
sew ideas n feeling can b suggestid simultaneouslee as whitman sd make
it nu n as ginsberg sd first thot best thot reed evreebode yu can from
evreewher n that will help yu n yr writing at nite fall yu can c n feel a ball uv
dreems rolling thru th darkning sky n hills uv snow laying out how that
smtimes brite blu ball uv dreems affekts
evreewun as th pome is n duz n smiles with yr dreeming
n what yu write abt th current war n yr
lost love s n deftlee found th pome can
tell abt as nothing els can
2. how should the particular kind of poem work – the particular kind of poem the particular kind of poet
with poetree n poets like a lot uv things in life n living th word shud dusint apply veree much a pafrtikular kind uv pome in being that kind whatevr kind bcums itself selves whn it speeks 2 us or is 2 us n with us n lets us in2 it self selvs make conversaysyunal vois an epik declama toree vois a lyrik vois sew manee voices oftn a dstilaysyun a burnish ing a hghr talk high prsuaysyun being bcumming jestyur trope sumtimes reel partikulars on th ground in th air in our self selves longings n realizasyuns n wher dew thees clustrs figuraysyuns gestalts cum from thees meditaysyuns on evreething critcizing e upholding qwestyuning desiring abstrakting asking evreething abt behavyur s ambishyuns analyses all th makings uv art erth climate change love cultural arrangements our evolushyuns th drawings all th various paradigms uv consciousness poetree can reflekt on evreething n aneeething th thrust n futilitee uv powr th importans uv dsappointment sew manee theems sew manee out bursts presences a sound pome say needs sound as its main assemblages attributes at xpressyun lava igniting artikulating a torrent uv sound s dsrupting n assuaging th silence s interrupting th habituating routeen make yr own sounds entr that realm franco cortese th vizual pome let it b vizual not onlee th pome in squares n rektanguls with left hand margin being th spine what we projekt from ourselvs on 2 what we create th hands uv th pome its lips minds mouth helping 2 shape its out pourings shapes
3. how does one know – the poem one is attempting to write that poem is there in the first place {and it’s not the ghost of the pome} or the ghost of another poem that the poet is being led to write
as whitney houston sang first a few decades ago how dew i know is qwestyun peopul have
bin asking sins creativ writtn langwage bgan n b4 whn it was oral n th transisyun from oral 2 writtn
how dew i know i think it tells us n a littul ghosting can go a long way but th pome knows 2 say
2 tell us if we heer n c th pome telling whethr its a great or wundrful pome gives food 4 thot or is
th thor n th food th pome will evenshulee or immediatelee tell us 2 heer 4 it saying being n bcum
ming n telling ther ar ghosts in th pome as ther ar ghosts in th masheen ghosts uv othr pomes
by othr poets by outselvs as margaret avison sd let them all in she ment all othr peopul but she
cud b saying ghosts can b peopul can b prsonae in th pome s i met a prson ystrday who peopul
sd was a ghost he may have bin n i put him in a pome th prson likes it ther its a dwelling place
as bob dylan sz sheltr from th storm n a pome sumtimes is that its a bundul uv reel toads in
imaginaree gardns as marianne moore sd uv poetree n shows us thru th darkness n what a lovlee
flame it makes as edna st vincent milay sd sew if thers a gathring uv ghosts in yr pome let them gathr
c what happns yu can shed thos xtra skins latr or enjoy support th layring palimpsesting uv skins
n layrs uv consciousness ghosts oftn bring or leev bhind in th pome yr pomes n pomes uv direkt
conversaysyunal speech ther can b much poetree ther as well mostlee yu find out what th pome
yu ar writing is by writing them n yu will know as yu find out in th writing
4. what is generally speaking a good place to rest a pome
generalee speeking a pome rests whn it stops sumtimes thers mor let in cum in n c n feel th mor
n whethr it stays or its alredee dun enuff yu will probablee reelee know yu reelee know a pome rests
whn it stops is finishd it will know n let yu in on it with yu n thru yu th vois uv th pome prformans
poetree conveys combines sound poetree with an xplosyun uv kritikul cultural prsonal jestures
tropes n yu can go veree far with ths poetik as well adeena karasick salome woman of valour
with all thees metier genre yu can go farthr thn aneething narrativ non narrativ lyrik sexual
metaphysical spiritual politikul song chanting thers nothing yu cant dew go with it as th pome
howevr its saying 2 yu urging yu letting yu in as yu ar going with it th pome reveeling mor n
mor layrings atmospherik non narrativ brian dedora vizual poetree xpertise judith copithorne
hart broudy eric schmaltz kate siklosi jim andrews gary barwin daniel f. bradley noir-z sew manee
wayze all wayze n sumtimes is th pome evr finishd
sew manee approaches sew manee word artists sum intimate sum deklamatoree stedmond pardy
milton acorn george eliot clarke have all deklamatoree approaches n also intimate recommendaysyun
4 close up love btween peopul stephen roxborough honey novick poet singr all thees wundrful peopul 2
reed daphne marlatt how manee wayze we caneach write othrs sew quiet most uv th time sew manee
wayze 2 b ther cathy ford lillian allen sew manee wundrful writrs 2 reed mona fertig maxine gadd
resident in th resonans uv being bcumming all th word we live inside convey thers no shud in
almost evreething espeshulee in writing potatos red pepprs ribs n shrooms th pome will find yu
n take yu evreewher linda rogers toshio ushiroguchi-pigott robert hogg n yu n what yu ar writing now
n sum pomes yu reed sew manee yu nevr 4get michael ondaatjes th cinnamon peelers whife n chad
juriansz notes from a journey helen posnos watr from th well robert boates cataract of the mind
n naomi henrikje laufers putting angels to bed wrap yrself in a lettr drawing around n thru it
c th image inside it breedthing all th alphabets writing what yr lerning n unlerning states uv
consciousness on th moov breething thru naytur being n yu bcumming yerning n b
5. what is generally speeking a good time 2 look at the poem agen?
addenda ths pome ocurrd ovr 3 dayze n it may go 4 mor i dont know yet
th beginning was writtn as it happend n not co insident with th ghost qwestyun
but bgun b4 n thn th frends saying reg had bin buried a few months ago
n that part uv th pome came on th 2nd day n th last lines arrivd 2day pomes
dont alwayze play that way with me going back 2 chek on how a pome is
growing espeshulee i had felt th pome needid mor n thn agen th 2nd time
i addid frends sd th ghost thing n th 3rd line abt putin came most recentlee
sew iul leev it 4 a few dayze n chek back sew evree pome is diffrent n grows
diffrentlee but i think ths pome has sum substans wch i think th first versyun
didint seem 2 have sew much sew iul c what happns next yes process yes
evree pome is diffrent with growing changing processing th ghosts in our
own minds n othrs n its all going on n going n th qwestyun ar our own
memoreez n our ideas uv self selves ghost we projekt on2 life othrs ibsens
ghosts hedd gabler cudint get ovr her own xpektaysyuns can we ar we
all living partlee in th past duz that accreysyun uv karma create us as palimp
sesting as we ar
ther was sumwun hovring around on th deck
i was looking up at he was peering in strange wiree moovs
long white hair partlee bald looking n weeving in th kold wintr
wind i got up from my mac air went 2 th window door askd
what ar yu looking 4 ium looking 4 thees peopul who want 2
moov well me i sd ium alredee moovd i dont need mor mooving
what wer theyr names i didint reelee get theyr names he sd
wher dew they live i askd he sd they live at th back uv ths
bldg thats what they told me dew yu know wch apt i askd
no he sd i didint get that eithr thers anothr apt ovr ther
on th lane ok iul look he sd n thers ths wun next door i sd
me hopeing they wud moov we all ar they skreem at each
othr sew much theyr verbal violens sew deeplee upsetting
whats yr name i askd reg he sd mines bill i sd n he lookd
like he knew sew yr a moovr i askd yes he sd can yu moov
us closr 2 spring iul dew my best he sd wavring n weeving
off thru th parking lot n in2 th dstans nevr looking at th othr
apartment doors
what was he lookin at was it alredee inside him eeting him
2 frends sd he was a ghost he had gone 2 spirit months ago n
ths 200 yeer old building is defintlee hauntid i wunderd whos
a ghost n or meerlee ghostlee n whos not hauntid sumtimes
th memoreez we selekt 2 guide us drive us ar they free
range or carnivor dew we want life 2 remind us or renu us
n speeking uv almost aneething wch is wch as putin is drivn
by out datid ideaz th worn out ideas uv kompleet oligarhik empire
powr a ghost in his own killing masheen lets find out if hes
a ghost apparishyun or not thers at leest wun way 2 kno
ther was sumwun strange hovring around on th deck
i was looking up at he was peering in strange wiree moovs
long white hair partlee bald looking n weeving in th kold wintr
wind i got up from my mac air went 2 th window door askd
what ar yu looking 4 ium looking 4 thees peopul who want 2
moov well me i sd ium alredee moovd i dont need mor mooving
now what wer theyr names i didint reelee get theyr names he sd
wher dew they live i askd he sd they live at th back uv ths
bldg thats what they told me dew yu know wch apt i askd
no he sd i didint get that eithr thers anothr apt ovr ther
on th lane ok iul look he sd n thers ths wun next door i sd
me hopeing they wud moov we all ar they skreem at each
othr sew much theyr verbal violens sew deeplee upsetting
4 evreewun who heers them she yelling yu fukan asshole
he skreeming look what yr dewing 2 me yr killing me
whats yr name i askd reg he sd mines bill i sd n he lookd
like he knew sew yr a moovr i askd yes he sd can yu moov
us closr 2 spring iul dew my best he sd wavring n weeving
off thru th parking lot n in2 th dstans nevr looking at th othr
apartment doors
what was he lookin at was it alredee inside him eeting him
2 frends sd he was a ghost he had gone 2 spirit months ago n
ths 200 yeer old building is defintlee hauntid i wunderd whos
a ghost n or meerlee ghostlee n whos not hauntid sumtimes
th memoreez we selekt 2 guide us drive us ar they free
range or carnivor or what carnival dew we want life 2 remind
us or renu us
n speeking uv almost aneething wch is wch as putin is drivn
by out datid ideaz th worn out ideas uv kompleet oligarhik empire
powr a ghost in his own killing masheen lets find out if hes
a ghost apparishyun or not thers at leest wun way 2 kno
a toilet bowl set 2 xplode whn putin sits on it smellee but
gone
compiled & 4mattid by anthony beaulé
Author Bio
originakee from lunaria still hopeing 2 undrstand erthling wayze love sound n vizual poetree n all approaches 2 writing n painting n drawing love th pickshur in th lettr n th lettr in th image n th sounds uv th stroke vizualee n audatorialee emenating in all arrangementz n direksyuns wanting 2 escape from th tyranee uv grammar n meening nu books lip poetree uv franco cortese with my drawing illustraysyuns 4 his work from penteract press n b r e t h / th trees uv lunaria from talonbooks i want to tell you love with milton acorn from university of calgary press eric schmaltz ed n spring 22 its th sailors life / still in treetment meditaysyuns from gold mountain from talonbooks n nu cd stars with pete dako on bandcamp. a direktir n secretaree tresurer uv th secret handshake
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