Blog Culture: November 2003 Archives

Want to thank Richard for the keys to this door. I'm new to weblogs in concept as well as practice. Look forward to joining the conversation. Have been away from the centers of poetry for a long, long time, but have been watching from a distance. Am sure there are protocols and table manners I will violate or fumble, blogly speaking, but am equally sure someone will educate me. Look forward to the correspondence.

Just when I thought I'd never come across a really good poetry blog, I hit upon Cahiers de Corey - poetry, language, thought, the poetry blog of Joshua Corey, a PhD student at Cornell. What I like about it is that he rambles a lot, and by doing so he comes across some inisghts about poetry. This, for example:

"The poem may be said to reside in disrupted, dilated, circulatory spaces, and it is the means by which one notates this provisional location that evokes and demonstrates agency?the ear by which the prosody by which to calibrate the liberative potential of writing, storehouse of the human."

Now that sentence rattles in the brain, but in it you sense something profound and you come away from it with the feeling you've learned a bit about poetics. I think too often we want to rationalize what we've read, locate the logic, westnernize it. What I like so far in Corey's blog is the whimsy, the wit, the language you simply accept.