It’s Spanish Lit month over at Winston’s Dad, so it’s time to venture into the work of the avant-garde poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936). I have been meaning to do this ever since I went to Spain, but it’s only recently that I discovered that the Penguin Moderns include a collection of his poetry, dialogues, […]
The Dialogue of Two Snails, by Federico García Lorca, translated by Tyler Fisher — ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
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The United States dropped one,
no, two atomic bombs on
Yoko Ono
Till Yoko and other children
had no more ice-cream, anywhere,
in the land of the raising sun.
In retaliation, the Ono children
looked up through holes
in the house top
Imagining food–exchanging menus
in the air like ice-cream and lots of it
In their minds, they would eat it all up.
Then days and wars turn into the past
And we still look up to the sun, anyway,
imaging where Imagination comes from.
The sun raises first in Japan
then makes its way around to New York City
where it listens to Yoko
Say, “Marriage is a gamble,
let’s be honest.” Then it takes out
scratchy vinyls of a Plastic Ono Band
and listens to those until they melt.
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I don’t remember when I first heard the ‘motorik’ beat – it’s one of those things that feels as if you’ve always known it. Over the last few weeks, having been listening to a lot of Bowie’s Berlin period, and reading Hugo Wilcken’s book on Low, I’ve been thinking about it a lot, revisiting favourite songs and albums that utilise it, from the progenitors like Neu! to latter day pretenders like The Horrors, and discovering new examples of it.
To clarify, the motorik beat goes like this:
| Beat | 1 | + | 2 | + | 3 | + | 4 | + |
| Hi-hat | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Snare | – | – | x | – | – | – | x | – |
| Kick | x | x | – | x | x | x | – | x |
If that doesn’t quite make sense, then think of it as dum-dum-dum-tsh-dum-dum-dum-tsh-dum-dum-dum-tsh-dum-dum-dum-tsh in perfect 4/4 time forever and ever.
An ILM thread has…
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Poetry Super Highway is a an online publication and resource for poets and writers. They publish two feature poets each week and host an online broadcast once a month in a poetry open mic format. You can call in and read your poetry live and hear other great poets, along with spoken word recordings, and related poetry announcements. They also run annual special projects, including The Great Poetry Exchange, poetry contest, prompt a day for poetry month, and more.
I was curious how and why this poetry site and community began, so I asked founder Rick Lupert a few questions to find out. See my interview with Lupert and a link to submission guidelines below.
HOPKINSON: Tell me a little bit about Poetry Super Highway.
LUPERT: Poetry Super Highway is one of the oldest poetry websites. The name is a play on information superhighway, an early term used to…
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I’m back good people. Did anyone miss me? Well…miss me or not,here I am! Today we’ll discuss Jólakötturinn, the Icelandic Yule cat. Okay…so I haven’t the slightest idea how to pronounce that but I’m sure one of my 3 followers will. No? No Icelandic followers? Just two bots and my mom? I guess I will just refer to him/her/it as “the Icelandic Yule Cat or YC”.
YC is bigger than a house but is said to quietly prowl the dark streets and peer into windows on Christmas Eve. It will eat those that did not receive new clothes. Seems reasonable that this happens and that no one tries to kill it. I can just imagine the people of Iceland seeing this huge beast and then scurrying off while looking at the ground, pretending not to notice it eating a child or knocking over things with it’s large tail. Nothing to see…
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I’m posting here the Craft Tip I contributed to my craft book, The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop. You might find it helpful as you work on new poems this month. You might also find it useful for working on poems you wrote months, or even years, ago. Enjoy! And prosper!
During revision discussions, we poets hear a lot about compression, reducing clutter, and cutting out the non-essential. Who hasn’t sat in a poetry class or workshop and been told that less is more? So when someone tells us to add more, to expand, to keep going, we might be hesitant to pay attention.
But we should pay attention. The less-is-more principle is often good advice, but it’s not always good advice. As I once heard Mark Doty say, Sometimes more is more.
Too often we start revising and hacking…
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