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Posted by malthus on September 19, 2004, at 0:47:03
soul of fire:song
fire of song:soul
song of soul:fire
fire of soul:song
song of fire:soul
soul of song:fire
Posted by Atticus on September 19, 2004, at 15:14:24
In reply to poem...Lyrical Dance, posted by malthus on September 19, 2004, at 0:47:03
This is really interesting: poetry streamlined to its essence through the careful choice of three meaning-packed words (soul, fire, song) and its rythmic beat. It strikes me as a poem about poetry on one level: words engaged in a linguistic square-dance of sorts, switching partners back and forth, each combination different and more than the sum of its three identical main components. If I've read this correctly, it's very similar to what I've been playing with lately. It reminds me of the paintings of the abstract expressionists like Pollock and Rothko, whose work was about color and tone and composition and their interaction, rather being about external subjects. Painting was the subject of these paintings, as much as anything else, although the improvisational nature of jazz and the sounds of jazz itself shaped their thoughts about painting. They were exploring the lyrical dance of the elements that make a painting a painting, boiled down to their most elemental form. ;) Atticus
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