Wow, this is such a radical example of it's own structure! You used words in a way I have never before seen/read. A message is in there, like all art, but you made the words art in itself by how you arranged them. The form reminds me of an eye test... but it really is a reality check for our brains because us silly humans are always freaking out about every little thing that goes wrong in day to day life. Nice work. Very different!
You managed to capture the very essance of a poet...the ability to create words as art...and to feel the words, and to provoke thought.
this poem is certainly art, especially with the mirror images and such.
And it is also thought provoking. You claim here that everything happens for a reason, which gets a person thinking...Plus the fact that your form is SO unconventional makes the brain take the time to think and process what it is reading, so the message is not necessarily lost in the imagery.
I really love this. I love the poem itself, the visual journey you take us on that goes up and down and back and again. I like the challenge of trying to figure out the words rightside-up and upside-down. There is nothing to critique here.
"All is imarginable is real" Authentic and original. Love it. Also, the use of visual art within the poem itself is a nice touch. I usually don't like viusal poetry but then I think that the visual aspect of poetry is often something that is overlooked. Poetry is an art of wordplay and expression, but you have a lot of negative space to play with so show off your art of words! Overall, I really enjoyed this peice.
I really can't describe how, I just think it's amazing, simplistic, concrete... ahh. Nice.
Posted 17 Years Ago
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I love concrete poetry . . . we attach such visuals to the words, we rarely consider the word itself . . . the actual images of the symbol itself so often plays on its own meaning - it takes us back to painting on cave walls . . . And then of course, the good ole' "everything happens for a reason." Love it. Way cool. Glad to have found it.
I've heard Phillip Roth and Dave Eggers referred to as performance artists of the page...I dunno about all that, but you strike me very much as a performance poet of the page. This is neat!
And then went down to the ship, Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and . . . Ezra Pound (TCOEP).
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