http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/random-poetry-03/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:15:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/random-poetry-03/#comment-2408 Emily Warn Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:30:40 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=652#comment-2408 Christian, I, too, was struck by your remarks, they're lucid in ways that approach--eee gads!--lyric poetry, or perhaps philosophical prose poetry, whereas the "poems" you cite interest me because they approach visual art, as your sound poetry approaches music. I stumbled on this short poem by Kay Ryan in her first book <i>Strangely Marked Metal</i>. It almost seems a lyric explication of your post: GAMBLER He's seen all he can of moon, the white which names black: he's had enought of that. There is no randomness behind the card's face; the night waits to erase change, each trace. Emily Christian,
I, too, was struck by your remarks, they’re lucid in ways that approach–eee gads!–lyric poetry, or perhaps philosophical prose poetry, whereas the “poems” you cite interest me because they approach visual art, as your sound poetry approaches music.
I stumbled on this short poem by Kay Ryan in her first book Strangely Marked Metal. It almost seems a lyric explication of your post:
GAMBLER
He’s seen all he can of moon,
the white which names black:
he’s had enought of that.
There is no randomness behind
the card’s face; the night
waits to erase change, each trace.
Emily

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/random-poetry-03/#comment-2407 Alicia (AE) Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:57:23 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=652#comment-2407 As ever, Christian, I find your remarks much more illuminating and thought-provoking than the (in my view) reductive code games that spark them... As ever, Christian, I find your remarks much more illuminating and thought-provoking than the (in my view) reductive code games that spark them…

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/01/random-poetry-03/#comment-2406 Steve Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:10:09 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=652#comment-2406 A <a href="http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/French/MallarmeUnCoupdeDes.htm" rel="nofollow">throw of the dice</a> can <a href="http://www.ubu.com/historical/mallarme/un_coup.pdf" rel="nofollow">never abolish</a> [warning: PDF] chance. A throw of the dice can never abolish [warning: PDF] chance.

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