tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post113582742731406318..comments2023-10-31T12:43:41.454-04:00Comments on Slicker Chumway's: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-1135985101532913762005-12-30T18:25:00.000-05:002005-12-30T18:25:00.000-05:00You've hit upon something very real in this:"Meani...You've hit upon something very real in this:<BR/><BR/>"Meaning there was something they needed that they (we, I) couldn’t get through interacting with actual people, whether that was an endlessly ongoing conversation, a distraction for an overly busy mind...."<BR/><BR/>I don't think of poetry as a distraction for my overbusy mind, but an outlet for my incredibly obsessive one. No one cares about what I think I saw until I can build a poem around it, that the tar on the road looks like Arabic or the vines on the telephone pole look like Jesus. I can use the weird twist in my brain to make something that resembles art, without boring my acquaintance to the point of homicide!<BR/><BR/>Enjoyed the read.<BR/><BR/>JulieJulie Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06878713173193835861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-1135982438969268892005-12-30T17:40:00.000-05:002005-12-30T17:40:00.000-05:00The best thing about the "conversation" between Se...The best thing about the "conversation" between Seth Abramson, Ron Silliman, and Joshua Corey is that it has spawned a small but important stream of dense, thoughtful online poetics and your ideas are particularly smooth-sailing in the fray. <BR/><BR/>Yet, the sense of interiority in your words took me aback. <BR/><BR/>I refer to when you said: <BR/><BR/>"Meaning there was something they needed that they (we, I) couldn’t get through interacting with actual people, whether that was an endlessly ongoing conversation, a distraction for an overly busy mind, or some verification that they were not alone. For me, and I imagine this to be the case for most folks, my private interaction with poetry and books in general comes before, supersedes, is ultimately more important than, any public interaction with the community of poets."<BR/><BR/>I don't think you have to have a "sociology of poetry" to find that writing and reading is not only about the private space of books but also about negotiating imagined or real relationships with imagined and real people. <BR/><BR/>When I read and write I feel as if I am moving from my always problematic center out into a decentered world of competing voices. My sense of interiority is exploded. I'm exteriorized.<BR/><BR/>However, the easy elegance with which you composed your ideas made me doubt my own experience of reading and writing. <BR/><BR/>So thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12141323.post-1135830203350137692005-12-28T23:23:00.000-05:002005-12-28T23:23:00.000-05:00well expressed.well expressed.Stuart Greenhousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01252575029228605034noreply@blogger.com