Read poetry @ Molten Java 1/22/15
Thanks to Dan Hunt and Molten Java!
“Hallelujah/I Know It’s Over” @ Molten Java 1/22/15
by Leonard Cohen/The Smiths arr. Jeff Buckley
An Essay Regarding “A New Measure” by William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams discusses the break from meter or set verse in his essay “A New Measure”, found in Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry. As he states in the essay, the count has gotten “rid of the words, which held it down, and returned to the music.” Instead of meter, he […]
An Essay on Charles Olson and Frank O’Hara
Olson is an objectivist. He does not want to focus on the inner subjective ego but reactions to the outside world. He also focuses more on the breath rather than meter or traditional form. In a way, he is a non-traditionalist for his use of field composition, but also a traditionalist in his objectivism. In […]
Wordsworth and Whitman
William Wordsworth says in his “Advertisement” to Lyrical Ballads that poetry must be diverse in its subject matter. This must not be evident due to the writing of critics, but in the poetry itself. The poems, he says, are experiments, applying lower/middle class conversational language rather than superior language often used in classical and formal […]