From 9fce418b46c9f0894f429384ef9e3dabaeffbeb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:36:17 -0700 Subject: Change file hierarchy and rewrite makefile - File hierarchy is now as follows: - / - appendix/ < appendix source files - backlinks/ < backlink sources & builds - hapax/ < *.hapax source files - scripts/ < scripts, like *.js, *.hs, etc. - templates/ < templates for outputs - text/ < source files - trunk/ < assets, like css, images, heads, etc. - index.html - *.html - Makefile --- manifesto_poetics.txt | 47 ----------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 47 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 manifesto_poetics.txt (limited to 'manifesto_poetics.txt') diff --git a/manifesto_poetics.txt b/manifesto_poetics.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5b5181e..0000000 --- a/manifesto_poetics.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Manifesto of poetics -genre: prose - -id: manifesto_poetics -toc: "A manifesto of poetics" - -project: - title: Stark raving - class: stark -... - -What is a poem? -I think it was Yeats that called a poem "the best words in the best order," and that isn't an inaccurate description, but I don't think it captures all of what a poem is. -[Let me start][] with communication. - -Communication is a transaction, an exchange between two people or entities, in which one (the Speaker/Writer/Communicator) gives the other (the Reader/Listener/Consumer) a \ -set of ideas / \ -a wireframe organization of a concept / \ -a set of reasons/instructions for action. -In many kinds of communication, for example speeches, reports, or advertisements, the kind of ideas transacted are generally factual/logical/brain-based in nature. -In art, these ideas are emotional/heart-based. -In short, Art is to Emotion as an [Article][] is to Information. -I think art should strive to transmit the emotion the author feels as efficiently as possible to the reader of that art. - -In order to do this, multiple notation systems have been devised. -Music is the most notable example that comes to mind, as it has the most rigid style, but grammar, as used self-consciously in writing, would be another example. -Poetry has only a very loose set of rules and assumptions that allow it a sort of notational language, and this is complicated by the fact that when writing poetry, the author writes for a different medium: poetry is meant to be performed aloud. -This makes the notation system even more important, but again, it's hard to come up with a system that will be read mostly the same by most people. - -What I've been trying to do since I began writing is develop a personal notation system, or what I think most would refer to as my "voice" as a poet/writer (I personally don't like the word "poet," as it sounds pretentious to me; I'm aware I should get over this). - -However, there were some places that still needed improving from my draft manuscript: most notably, my prose in "Rip Tide of Memory" (now only "Rip Tide") and "AMBER Alert." -I rewrote each to tighten their syntactic and idea rhythm, to make them move more lightly and gracefully. - -The most notable difference in my series is the reordering of poems within it. -I think that in my first draft, I spent so much time on getting my individual poems tight and polished that I threw them together somewhat haphazardly, using a loose thematic correspondence with the fake "Table of contents." -With the new order, I hope this has been fixed: the piece consists of six sections, each with three poems (A new one, "Everything stays the same," makes the totals correct). -Each section has a thematic/emotional/personal element that ties the sections together. -They are ordered by the order in which I wrote the sestinas at the beginning of each section, which works out to make the series move from identity to memory to a feeling of universal justice, and from there to a discussion of death and (something like) love that culminates in an exploration of the nature of time and cosmology. -The piece is bookended by the fake "Table of contents" (provided at the end as an ironic commentary on the rest of the text) and an "About the author" section. -I think it works better this way, and I think the "About the author" at the beginning serves as a fair prelude poem to the piece. - -I'm excited to be a writer like I haven't been before. - -[Let me start]: prelude.html -[Article]: README.html#fn1 -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81