/lit/ - Literature

>>10301815
Robert Duncan
Ashbery
Eliot
H.D.

Davey Wreden's videogame, The Beginner's Guide

>>10195527
Good, I genuinely think it's worthwhile even if you ultimately stop writing. Strong knowledge of rhythms and grammar with pay dividends in places where you have to speak publicly and in any time you wind up having to write something like a resume or a paper.

Making someone feel something strongly is p hard, but the few times I've managed to do it were surreal.

It's a long walk in something that even at the lowest level is much more difficult than other verbal art forms (short stories, novels, plays) but it honestly has helped me in so many facets of my life.

Final piece of advice is to read other poetry and read it aloud.

>>9933853
>What do you want to talk about?
the technique I'm trying to create here >>9923746 and better ways to make it obvious without explaining the form (or having a garish key like parentheses)
Also, the possibility of true non-linearity (not just choice) in poetry

>What's a technique you've been practicing?
Ghazals and >>9926218

>What contemp have you been reading?
Boruch as you know, David Bottoms, and bout to sink my teeth in Andrew Hudgins

>Favorite poetry magazine?
Poetry and Rattles are the only two I've read enough of. Measure looks cool though.

I don't discredit the classics of the mindset preferring more straightforward to the complex poetics of contemps like Chakraborty or Boruch, but understanding and developing a (reading) relationship with these writers will help you.

Dante may arc, but there are some pretty pointless digressions in Inferno.

>what works best for you to achieve acute word choice within rigid meter

Reading my stuff out loud and seeing what I'm inclined to say, finding metrical substitions I can set patterns up with

Just write like a million Shakespearean Sonnets with emphasis on the volta, and you'll eventually get more comfy with Iambic (you'll have to get back to me on dactyls/anapestic)

pic-related is one of my more serious efforts that might give you an Idea about where I write from (which could influence how you value my input) the structure is heavily influenced by Robert Duncan

>>9829271
>the not-nor syntax
>the [blank-of-blank] construction paralled
>though at Queen's behest

these are all p archaic, but I am not sure that some don't come from a struggling with meter, otherwise I think this narrative could be more directly (and powerfully) in a more contemporary voice.

>>9815558
Thinking about self-publishing (i have a few people that look for my stuff on here and other sites) I wonder how many reviews it'd take to be reasonable searchable.

pic-related is one of my pieces

how you guys feel about this piece then?

superficially inspired by Robert Duncan's The Fire