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Guest Blogger at Drunken Boat

Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:13 PM
See my essay "Collage-Mind" at Drunken Boat! Thanks to Dan Godston for inviting me to send occasional dispatches.
Categories: process notes, experiments, poetics, poetry, criticism, collage, The Querist of Forms, Drunken Boat, jen besemer

The Querist of Forms: Pretensions to Accessibility

Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:51 PM
Pretensions to Accessibility 

Poets are people who make poetry, whatever that means. I make poetry that interests me, and trust that my audience is made up of those who are also interested in what I make. I find my work is strongest and most satisfying to that audience when I am true to my own priorities and my own poetics. I do not work with much concern over "accessibility," which in the context of poetry refers to whether or not the "general reader" will be able to find value in the work--maybe through a recognition of cultural allusions in the content, through emotional resonance or empathy with the feelings described, or through relating to the experiences of the poet as narrated in the poem.
Categories: poetics, poetry, poetry market, criticism, The Querist of Forms

The Querist of Forms: Polaroiding in Public

Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:49 PM

Polaroiding in Public 

Photography is ubiquitous in the wake of the "digital revolution." Versatile, powerful cameras are standard equipment on devices and tools from phones to vehicles. These days, no one looks twice at someone holding their phone or phone-sized camera up in the most public, everyday places: restaurants, museums, buses and subway trains, the street, the grocery store, school, etc. A traditional-looking DSLR--with its "pro" sign value, its documentary seriousness and its satisfying heft--no longer generates much interest among spectators.
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The Many Lives of a Text

Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2012 1:23 PM
This post starts an intermittent series of brief essays on poetics and on the practice of poetry. Look for other essays under the series titleThe Querist of Forms.

THE MANY LIVES OF A TEXT

One piece of writing can have many lives.  In commercial or academic culture it's been traditional to see the book publication as the end goal--and somehow the "realest" form--of any text.  But even the form or version of a text that is printed in a book is not necessarily the final version.
Categories: art practice: issues and challenges, poetics, poetry, criticism, The Querist of Forms
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