I always love reading about your process! I have a note in Google Keep called Poetry Boneyard that fills the same function as your Poetry Concepts Evernote file. I love hearing your poems again a bit after you've first put them out and after you've talked a bit about your process. I found a lot more to love about On Vicinity, a poem I already enjoyed, with this post. Thanks for the great work!
I seem to "live" in a darker world. Than that. My world is covered in eternal bodies falling from heaven, blood of sacrifice to birth and death old as the womb tomb, as a mere token of existence. But -- as a method for exploring, I think about process all the time, as an infusion, incursion specifically by the literary -- voices of beauty, horror, grief, death, mystery, misery, desire and duty... how explore that, as honestly as can dig up, to do so without process, turned out often to be pure rub ish, not dishonest, but blindly excavating variations -- when let into process, for me it turned into an exchange with recognition that I am lapsing into forms, and can have an altercation, as it were, with those forms, and by so doing let the angels in, as figurative of wonder, blunder and grace. Process gives me recognition.
Reading these lines as statements, and again as questions, made the words move in different ways for me. I like the way questions open the poem up just a bit more, inviting the reader deeper into the images. I think it’s great to explore a point of view that feels a bit experimental, even if you don’t want to share it. A new way to stretch and grow.
Thanks for sharing this Jason! I may not have seen Brian’s poetry. I definitely see a writer who is far more methodical. Methodical after the impulse. Perhaps that is what I need to learn. I’m all the way impulsive when I write anything.
Brian I can see short stories, lyrics to or poetry using your name. I am pleased to read your writing Brian
Love reading the thoughts behind this. Thank you for sharing your notes from Evernote. The space between the pen immediately caught in my head. Makes me also think on the space between the pen and the page.
"I love this part of writing and often feel when this occurs that the writing is happening through me, not from me." -- so much this.
Thanks Brian for showing us poem, process, and your Evernote file. You share with great generosity.🤍🌱
Thanks Katharine 🙂
I always love reading about your process! I have a note in Google Keep called Poetry Boneyard that fills the same function as your Poetry Concepts Evernote file. I love hearing your poems again a bit after you've first put them out and after you've talked a bit about your process. I found a lot more to love about On Vicinity, a poem I already enjoyed, with this post. Thanks for the great work!
Thanks Jason! I do love the name Poetry Boneyard...
I seem to "live" in a darker world. Than that. My world is covered in eternal bodies falling from heaven, blood of sacrifice to birth and death old as the womb tomb, as a mere token of existence. But -- as a method for exploring, I think about process all the time, as an infusion, incursion specifically by the literary -- voices of beauty, horror, grief, death, mystery, misery, desire and duty... how explore that, as honestly as can dig up, to do so without process, turned out often to be pure rub ish, not dishonest, but blindly excavating variations -- when let into process, for me it turned into an exchange with recognition that I am lapsing into forms, and can have an altercation, as it were, with those forms, and by so doing let the angels in, as figurative of wonder, blunder and grace. Process gives me recognition.
Reading these lines as statements, and again as questions, made the words move in different ways for me. I like the way questions open the poem up just a bit more, inviting the reader deeper into the images. I think it’s great to explore a point of view that feels a bit experimental, even if you don’t want to share it. A new way to stretch and grow.
Agreed, thanks Ann!
Thanks for sharing this Jason! I may not have seen Brian’s poetry. I definitely see a writer who is far more methodical. Methodical after the impulse. Perhaps that is what I need to learn. I’m all the way impulsive when I write anything.
Brian I can see short stories, lyrics to or poetry using your name. I am pleased to read your writing Brian
Pamela, such very kind words, thank you! Great to submeet you 😊
Love it - submeet!!
Love reading the thoughts behind this. Thank you for sharing your notes from Evernote. The space between the pen immediately caught in my head. Makes me also think on the space between the pen and the page.
"I love this part of writing and often feel when this occurs that the writing is happening through me, not from me." -- so much this.
Thanks for reading Nathan. I’m glad you’re enjoying.