tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28949614.post8880591760749452336..comments2024-03-25T05:54:35.546-07:00Comments on Jennifer K Dick: April poems: questioning the genuine act of making poems in the space of performance engendered by blogs and the internet ageJennifer K Dickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14819275106754521715noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28949614.post-33167513381435887882012-04-11T12:56:10.041-07:002012-04-11T12:56:10.041-07:00Hi, Jen. I feel similarly, which is why I rarely p...Hi, Jen. I feel similarly, which is why I rarely post drafts of my poems and don't ask others to post theirs as part of my NaPoWriMo challenge. I need to let the work stay embryonic to be happy with the process. Sometimes I get excited about what I've done and do post a draft, but that's usually left me feeling disappointed by the silence that follows. <br /><br />I'm really glad you're along for the ride, Jen, and I appreciate your thoughtfulness about the experience, too. I'm getting more out of it this year than any other largely because of the greater sense of community through the blog--reading those posts helps renew my commitment.<br /><br />Yours,<br />CarrieCarrie Etterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09617695047663413425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28949614.post-31299779066367090662012-04-10T21:13:21.121-07:002012-04-10T21:13:21.121-07:00Yes, jen, and to your other comment makers, too......Yes, jen, and to your other comment makers, too...improv can certainly be artful. Tho often- unfinished, &/or not really ready for consumption even as eye-candy. But the act of finessing a poem, and rewriting, and making it that object not so different from Michel Ange's notion of chipping away the marble to find the angel hidden within it... that act takes time. (An art object or form that is made to be burned up in the flame of making, or tossed into the trial and error pile, I would prefer to keep private.) The thing is, the child in us wants instant approval, instant feedback, often. So we send it out there, post it on the net somewhere, send to a dozen fellow "makers," hoping for a brava, when what the work may require is the dark drawer until we return to it a day or a year later to keep on chipping away at the stone. <br /><br />The net, & blogs, & the many newest etceteras of publishing make it so that one may easily drown in the "too much" of it all, with little discernment. Keeping the creative soul naked and vulnerable and active, a foundation that is so needed, absolutely...does not mean becoming instantly performative. <br /><br />My two cents, <br />with care, <br />margoMargo Berdeshevskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13501194728640155485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28949614.post-18004671796437285212012-04-10T13:35:30.073-07:002012-04-10T13:35:30.073-07:00how i love your long post title.
but:
"the...how i love your long post title. <br /><br />but:<br /><br />"the genuine act of making gets caught up with what feels like to me an ingenuine act of performance. I personally do not want to dance for the crowd. Instead, in the writing, I feel like I want to peel open--myself, my ears, my vision, my body, my soul--if such a thing does exist."<br /><br />i'll ask or maybe just add that performance shouldn't be not genuine. think about improvisational music, comedy--unrepeatable-- acting--<br /><br />and gestures, drawing and-- ! drawing? improvisation is artful. <br /><br />the gesture! <br /> <br />bises-Sarah Larivierehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07599718243653704368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28949614.post-52973485781463598332012-04-10T13:22:59.262-07:002012-04-10T13:22:59.262-07:00Seems appropriate that after writing this post I c...Seems appropriate that after writing this post I came accross Greg Bachar's post of Tapies' quote on FB: "We must find the antidote that will help us escape from ourselves." Antoni Tapies, "Art As Cure"Jennifer K Dickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819275106754521715noreply@blogger.com