Pound's Poem

Make it new, and bring

back the old that was

left in its dust  

 

wield the pen

chisel and paint

what once seemed fresh

 

what first inspired

heart to create

art and

 

make it new

again

Ken e Bujold 

Reviews

[andrew mitchell]

It’s almost a recycling going on to reinvent what’s already invented.

[Ken Simm.]

Lots of interest, layers and meaning to pick through here which is just what I enjoy. Its what these layers mean personally that picks at me.

[Vol]

Ken,
Poetry is a powerful medium because of its many layers. WE read a good one and realize we really like it, then we read it again and find it has a deeper meaning we overlooked the first time, and on the third pass, we find ourselves changed a little... or a lot.
It works both ways, for the reader, AND the poet...
And once again when we write about it...
By the way , have you ever heard of Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast? It is awesome if you can find it...

[Ken e Bujold]

have not heard Skinner's podcast. when i get a chance will check it out. Thanks for review and point towards something new.

[Vol]

I first encountered him a few years ago... got distracted by life, found him again in the early dark of this morning...

[W. Barrett Munn]

So goes the challenge to Eliot, to all of us to reconsider Homer as Daniel Ellsberg or Aristotle as Ghandi,
or Yuri Gregarin as Captain Kirk.

Winston

[Ken e Bujold]

I am rereading A.O Scott's book on literary criticism. In a discussion about Pound's "make it new", he had several interesting observations. Chiefly this, that lost in the new-age babble of Ezra's exhortation is the recognition of what "it" is. New does not appear in a vacuum. Artists begin by seeking to understand what moves them, then to imitate and master, before moving on to make "it" new again.

[W. Barrett Munn]

I’ve read the same or at least similar that poetry is a contnuum and new is only a reintroduction.

[emmajoygreen]

Just as emotions, time and intensity can vary according to their warmth, so can the meaning of words. After all, surely a poem has the same rights as its poet! 'For everything there is a season.. '

[Chris Shaw]

I’m all for airing and revising old poems. Giving them a lick of fresh paint. A bit of a spring clean. A new outlook. Why not?
Poems are never completely finished.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Oh my...love the title...
a poem I see being about pulling out old poems...dusting them off, making revisions,
and making them seem like different poems altogether.
our lives are poems always a work in progress.,
j.