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Post by Gerry on Jun 10, 2024 10:45:16 GMT -5
I was lucky enough to be friends with Stephen for the last 18 years of his life, and I knew him to be one of the most interesting thinkers about poetry. His two collections of essay both include compelling pieces on craft, and I think this essay about his poem "The Guardian Angel" is a good place to start thinking about how poems get made. Attachments:Dunn essay 1.pdf (173.69 KB)
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Post by shycleo on Jun 11, 2024 10:49:29 GMT -5
This essay is such a gift that clarifies for me my own process by making me now, more conscious of the mysteries of exchange of energies and matter. I almost cried several times reading this essay that gives me faith in myself, in the connections between what is on the other side of those fissures I've experienced and the joy of connecting through the eye of the threaded needle ... now I will revisit a poem I wrote about starlings and also feel so comforted by knowing at last that I am a seamstress and have lots of experience with linings and connecting and mending gaps and piercing through layers and pulling backs to front so that the medieval harts and hinds in a tapestry are alive here in my neck of the woods along with owls and goats and me. Whew, this essay made me gasp and gave me chills more than once. Thank you, thank you for sharing it. KAH
p.s. my former name for this workshop several years ago was BlueBird. That name didn't seem to connect me to this workshop so I re-registered as ShyCleo.
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Post by Caroline on Jun 16, 2024 15:37:26 GMT -5
Stephen Dunn's essay is very helpful in demonstrating the conscious and unconscious as simultaneous authors of a poem. It would be great to also know the anthology from which this was scanned.
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Post by Gerry on Jun 17, 2024 11:06:09 GMT -5
Sad to say, Caroline, that I no longer remember where the essay came from.... The book may be in my office on campus, but I took a quick run there this morning and couldn't find it....
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