http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/silent-disco/ A blog from the Poetry Foundation where contemporary poets debate classic and contemporary poetry from America and around the world. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:38:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/silent-disco/#comment-5837 Bob Cobblers Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:43:56 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1106#comment-5837 Have we entered a version of silent disco? . yes, yes, of course the silence of the experience is primary experience and the poem is a jumble of signals not received per se, vis a vis whatever noise in a poem as poem is operating on the concentration of a squares head man. . yah, yah, blow Jackie baby, Ginsey and Newton John gettin loud 'n doorty wiv the idea of Dublin Poetry itself, must,must be either appearing as the square ball route to D - I - S - C - O - D i - S C - O poetries, all lurve asking mah Americoin peeps to pal around wiv S - A- R- S A - I - D S C O, singing disco, singing Frisco '74, a race Al and Auden also fought in, for the clarification of thespandex flip back hep cat hip Liverpool sale of the jumbled youth of John and Paul singing disco, yo blow Jack and Ginsey at the studio in '54, Greg just owta chokey, Neal a prophet on the road, rock 'n roll da Dub club of Desmond Swords. Fab lurve in the lavs with Jack K and George, blowin up the green lore, Amergin berthed in ollamh, Taliesin in Annwnn, Ceridwen in Bala, beneath the vil the coll nuts fizz, in Segais where poetry lives.. gra agus siochain Have we entered a version of silent disco?
. yes, yes, of course the silence of the experience is primary experience and the poem is a jumble of signals not received per se, vis a vis whatever noise in a poem as poem is operating on the concentration of a squares head man.
. yah, yah, blow Jackie baby, Ginsey and Newton John gettin loud ‘n doorty wiv the idea of Dublin Poetry itself, must,must be either appearing as the square ball route to D – I – S -
C – O – D
i – S
C – O poetries, all lurve asking mah Americoin peeps to pal around wiv S – A- R- S
A -
I – D
S C O, singing disco, singing Frisco ‘74, a race Al and Auden also fought in, for the clarification of thespandex flip back hep cat hip Liverpool sale of the jumbled youth of John and Paul singing disco, yo blow Jack and Ginsey at the studio in ‘54, Greg just owta chokey, Neal a prophet on the road, rock ‘n roll da Dub club of Desmond Swords.
Fab lurve in the lavs with Jack K and George, blowin up the green lore, Amergin berthed in ollamh, Taliesin in Annwnn, Ceridwen in Bala, beneath the vil the coll nuts fizz, in Segais where poetry lives..
gra agus siochain

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/silent-disco/#comment-5836 Doodle Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:52:46 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1106#comment-5836 "What is the state capital of Nova Scotia?" -- John Ashbery “What is the state capital of Nova Scotia?” — John Ashbery

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/silent-disco/#comment-5835 Mary Meriam Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:47:57 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1106#comment-5835 sounds haiku-ish, Jane. sounds haiku-ish, Jane.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/silent-disco/#comment-5834 Jane Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:32:17 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1106#comment-5834 A winter night in Nova Scotia spent at a silent disco, prelude to hibernation. A winter night in Nova Scotia spent at a silent disco, prelude to hibernation.

]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/10/silent-disco/#comment-5833 Doodle Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:44:15 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=1106#comment-5833 Hm. I never thought of my bus ride as a silent disco before. But so it is! Hm. I never thought of my bus ride as a silent disco before. But so it is!

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