metaphors

Lists and Parataxis: A primer for those who want it

by Joe Weil Poetry and Poetics

Lists and Parataxis: A primer for those who want it

By Joe Weil

Whitman has more listings than an anal retentive suburbanite.

Mar
20
2013
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Whitman has more listings than an anal retentive suburbanite.

Learning from Arbitrary Grids

by Joe Weil Poetry and Poetics

Learning from Arbitrary Grids

By Joe Weil

We can enter a poem in an almost limitless number of ways–through its imagery, its social underpinnings, its meaning, its rhythms, its sentence structure, its line breaks.

Sep
19
2012
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We can enter a poem in an almost limitless number of ways–through its imagery, its social underpinnings, its meaning, its rhythms, its sentence structure, its line breaks.

The Problems and Potential of Slam

by Joe Weil Poetry and Poetics

The Problems and Potential of Slam

By Joe Weil

I do not hate spoken word. I hate ham acting.

Jan
11
2012
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I do not hate spoken word. I hate ham acting.

Tom Waits’ many, many moons

by Daniel Silliman Music

Tom Waits’ many, many moons

By Daniel Silliman

Waits has a thing for moons, and has been working on lyrical variations of this one metaphor for gong on 40 years.

Mar
14
2011
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Waits has a thing for moons, and has been working on lyrical variations of this one metaphor for gong on 40 years.

A Thing with Feathers: Concrete and Abstract

by Joe Weil Poetry and Poetics

A Thing with Feathers: Concrete and Abstract

By Joe Weil

We have seven hues, a silver gyre, seven swords of vision, and a prophet’s flaming tyre. Beats me as to what Campbell means, but almost all lyrical poems contain such moments of high gibberish.

Nov
23
2010
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We have seven hues, a silver gyre, seven swords of vision, and a prophet’s flaming tyre. Beats me as to what Campbell means, but almost all lyrical poems contain such moments of high gibberish.

Derangement: Breton and Metaphor

by Joe Weil Language

Derangement: Breton and Metaphor

By Joe Weil

All metaphors are, eventually, false, inaccurate, distortians of reality. Reality itself is a distortion. Frost–the conservative–said as much.

Nov
16
2010
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All metaphors are, eventually, false, inaccurate, distortians of reality. Reality itself is a distortion. Frost–the conservative–said as much.

Metaphor as Foundation of Consciousness

by Joe Weil Language

Metaphor as Foundation of Consciousness

By Joe Weil

Metaphors are committed to falsehood and inexactness for the sake of a possibility more vital than precision.

Nov
09
2010
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Metaphors are committed to falsehood and inexactness for the sake of a possibility more vital than precision.

How to Teach Writing to Beginners (Towards a Different Kind of Workshop, Part IV)

by Joe Weil Poetry and Poetics

How to Teach Writing to Beginners (Towards a Different Kind of Workshop, Part IV)

By Joe Weil

Russian novelists exhausted every eye color in the 19th century. Pop song writers are the only people who can make a big deal out of eyes anymore.

Nov
05
2010
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Russian novelists exhausted every eye color in the 19th century. Pop song writers are the only people who can make a big deal out of eyes anymore.

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