tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post873093799395933681..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Poetry. Channeling Tesla.Marly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-83066923499495904432013-06-08T13:36:13.497-04:002013-06-08T13:36:13.497-04:00I've mentioned Prufrock a number of times--eve...I've mentioned Prufrock a number of times--everybody needs to subscribe!marlyhttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-43369349368950960912013-06-08T12:41:33.639-04:002013-06-08T12:41:33.639-04:00It's worth thinking about these things... and ...It's worth thinking about these things... and I also was drawn by this video yesterday in Prufrok and wrote a message to the artist asking him if he would contribute something to Slippage.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-11106980358090499212013-06-08T09:34:18.051-04:002013-06-08T09:34:18.051-04:00Glad you liked it! I do think that an idea that...Glad you liked it! I do think that an idea that's interesting for one branch of art tends to be interesting for all, and translating it from one kind to another often produces even more fresh ideas.<br /><br />I wish somebody who has read Boethius' De Musica would come and tell me how this idea interacts with his three categories--the music of the spheres, of the body, and of voice and marlyhttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-66155679496857147902013-06-08T09:18:19.620-04:002013-06-08T09:18:19.620-04:00I thoroughly enjoyed this. Not just the images an...I thoroughly enjoyed this. Not just the images and the music - but what it all means to art in general (I think it does mean something to art in general).<br />Poetry read aloud is a kind of music. Quite a complex one too, really - with modulation, pitch, sustained 'notes', pauses. I think really good poetry falls into a natural pattern that we all understand. Rhythm too, of course.<Paul Digbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-26170378415946140492013-06-07T21:14:18.180-04:002013-06-07T21:14:18.180-04:00You're right, of course, and we don't know...You're right, of course, and we don't know exactly how that sounded, and whether there was a true space (that is, a breath, a rest) in between. In some ways I like it simply because to a modern the lines are thickly clotted, and that firm break in spacing seems to give the same sort of pleasure as a musical rest. <br /><br />And they aren't simply equal pairs because there's a marlyhttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-50436151151134313522013-06-07T20:33:58.649-04:002013-06-07T20:33:58.649-04:00(though the caesura, of course, still thrives in p...(though the caesura, of course, still thrives in pentameter.)<br />Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-12982204536842664602013-06-07T20:32:52.697-04:002013-06-07T20:32:52.697-04:00Remember that the "line with a hole in the mi...Remember that the "line with a hole in the middle" was made up by modern editors. In the OE manuscripts, there's simply a point after each half-line . like this . so the half lines . might simply be . lines: couplets . bound together . by alliteration .Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-13945299014581153602013-06-07T14:32:14.872-04:002013-06-07T14:32:14.872-04:00Turner again! I need to try one of his books soon....Turner again! I need to try one of his books soon...<br /><br />I rather like the gap, both for the organization of sounds on each side and for how it looks. I recently wrote a short poem using a large middle gap (and maybe a little extra alliteration--I think I kept it in.) It was about a death and a marriage, so fit. I tend to keep the gap when translating (though I haven't done much.)marlyhttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-14323926819267749102013-06-07T14:09:42.574-04:002013-06-07T14:09:42.574-04:00Back in '01, your fellow epic poet Frederick T...Back in '01, your fellow epic poet Frederick Turner co-authored "The Neural Lyre," a lengthy piece for <i>Poetry</i> exploring the possible neurobiological origins of meter. It made little sense to me, but it's certainly a worthy and promising line of inquiry.<br /><br />(As for those caesurae in Old English verse, I'm working on a new translation that employs them and Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-79077561738624288472013-06-07T13:18:46.542-04:002013-06-07T13:18:46.542-04:00Ah, the energy of serendipity! A small, happy acci...Ah, the energy of serendipity! A small, happy accident...marlyhttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-24438153962664498262013-06-07T12:31:53.801-04:002013-06-07T12:31:53.801-04:00Talk about energy waves! Not exactly poetry, but y...Talk about energy waves! Not exactly poetry, but yesterday I saw an episode in my favourite Canadian TV series, Murdoch Mysteries, which featured Tesla, in Toronto and Niagara.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-70950759688677145272013-06-07T10:23:10.663-04:002013-06-07T10:23:10.663-04:00Yes, there are lots of ways to take those ideas......Yes, there are lots of ways to take those ideas... Not "scientific," but exciting.marlyhttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-65373968029218903872013-06-07T10:15:43.810-04:002013-06-07T10:15:43.810-04:00Loving this, Marly! Thank you for posting! Yes, it...Loving this, Marly! Thank you for posting! Yes, it is exciting to think about vibrations in poetry, engendered by poetry--- from poem to poem, from writer to reader to writer to reader and so on down the chain; and to think that the "technologies" that we use today (think craft, think language strategies, metaphor, etc.) to create poetry have been transmitted - a form of energy itself -Luisa A. Igloriahttp://www.luisaigloria.comnoreply@blogger.com