tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post4004137232485322824..comments2023-12-16T02:44:20.427-06:00Comments on Reginald Shepherd's Blog: Which Side Are You On, Boy, Which Side Are You On?Reginald Shepherdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11965170916626482963noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post-16196697075600795952007-01-12T09:32:00.000-06:002007-01-12T09:32:00.000-06:00Reginald,
I saw your name on Silliman's blog and ...Reginald,<br /><br />I saw your name on Silliman's blog and came to your blog and found the tone clear and salient. I find Ron to be a little too obsessed with schools of poetry, but I think his blog is a great service to the literary community and the School of Queitude nomer is relevant and helpful.<br /><br />He says that the term originates with Poe and that it suggests the stream in North American poetry that extends the British Literature tradition, rather than the one which heads in the direction of open form, as say in the vein of Whitman. (The 20TH c split between WCW and Eliot and their corresponding schools exemplifies this division.)<br /><br />I have come to poetry late (1994) but have not been inspired by the SoQ poets, but by Open Form (<i> Projective</i> in Olson's view, <i>Composition by Field</i> in Olson and Duncan's other phrase for it, or <i> Organic</i> as Duncan and Levertov called it.)<br /><br />In 1990 I began hosting and producing a public affairs interview program and quickly entered into a study of holistic approaches to issues. In 1993 I created a non-profit organization <a href="http://www.globalvoicesradio.org"> Global Voices Radio </a> to continue to delve into the organismic world-view and to create projects that would make the theory experiential. One of those projects was SPLAB!, <a href="http://www.splab.org"> the Northwest SPokenword LAB</a> in Auburn, Washington, a traditional town 30 mi. south of Seattle.<br /><br />In my work I have come to understand why the Organic resonates deeply with me and that is the world-view on which it is based is an Organismic one. I had a feeling that might be the case when in 1995 I first read <i><b> Projective Verse </i></b> and how Charles Olson refered to <i>...that stance toward reality which brings such verse into being...</i> Eleven years later I see that Robin Blaser says <i>...the real business of poetry is cosmology...</i> and I concur. <br /><br />We can write anti-war poems, but if we do it with a cosmology (conscious or not) of competition and domination (mechanistic paradigm) it still emits a field of competition rather than interdependence. Several <a href="http://www.globalvoicesradio.org/studyplan5.5.06.html">essays </a>I have written seek to illuminate aspects of this stance-toward-poem-making and are at: but the ones most relevant have just been published in Fulcrum V: <a href="http://www.globalvoicesradio.org/Dualism_and_Olsonian.htm "> Dualism and Olson's Antidote </a> and <a href="http://www.globalvoicesradio.org/Organic_Poetry.html"> Organic Poetry </a><br /><br />I'd welcome feedback or comments on this.<br /><br />Paul NelsonSplabmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08068813038783953187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014415529871703586.post-74640824122166894972007-01-09T15:09:00.000-06:002007-01-09T15:09:00.000-06:00If Seamus Heaney is part of the "School of Quietud...If Seamus Heaney is part of the "School of Quietude," then the school is misnamed.Andrew Shieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02804655739574694901noreply@blogger.com