https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp Made with charm en-us 2018-03-13 22:19:24 UTC 2018-03-14 16:25:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241968604 Most good poets of the last century, or so have been private poets, the words, at least certain key words, mean something to the poet they don't mean to the reader.]]> 2018-03-14 16:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241968604 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241968964  I caution against communication because once language exists only to convey information, it is dying.]]> 2018-03-14 16:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241968964 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969033 You hear me make extreme statements like “don’t communicate” and “there is no reader.”]]> 2018-03-14 16:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969033 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969614 "If you have no emotional investment in the town, though you have taken immediate emotional possession of it for the duration of the poem, it may be easier to invest the feeling in the words."]]> 2018-03-14 16:15:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969614 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969668 "Your triggering subjects are those that ignite your need for words." ]]> 2018-03-14 16:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969668 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969771 moves that are naturally yours will stay with you and will come forth mysteriously when needed.]]> 2018-03-14 16:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969771 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969900 "Your obsessions lead you to your vocabulary."]]> 2018-03-14 16:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969900 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969942 "A poet should write what you know.", advocating instead an approach to poetry based on triggering subjects and words.]]> 2018-03-14 16:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241969942 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970168 Once you have the information, the words seem unimportant]]> 2018-03-14 16:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970168 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970222  but an imagined town is at least as real as an actual town]]> 2018-03-14 16:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970222 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970275 "The relation of the words to the subject must weaken the relation of the words to the writer (you) must take on strength." ]]> 2018-03-14 16:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970275 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970552 Your triggering subjects are those that ignite your need for words.]]> 2018-03-14 16:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970552 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970750 The poem is always in your hometown, but you have a better chance of finding it in another.]]> 2018-03-14 16:17:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970750 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970839 "If you have no emotional investment in the town, though you have taken immediate emotional possession of it, for the duration of the poem, it may be easier to invest the feeling in the words." ]]> 2018-03-14 16:17:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970839 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970908 Your way of writing locates, even creates your inner life.]]> 2018-03-14 16:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970908 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970958 "The more stable the base the freer you are to fly from it in the poem."]]> 2018-03-14 16:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241970958 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241971600 The poem is always in your hometown, but you have a better chance of finding it in another.]]> 2018-03-14 16:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241971600 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241971841 With the strange town, you can assume all knowns are stable and you owe the details nothing emotionally.]]> 2018-03-14 16:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241971841 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241972433 Your hometown often provides so many knowns that the imagination cannot free itself to seek the unknowns.]]> 2018-03-14 16:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241972433 https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241973267 "So you are after those words you can own and ways of put­ting them in phrases and lines that are yours by right of obses­sive musical deed."]]> 2018-03-14 16:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tkercher/7jlkc8oiyyvp/wish/241973267