Saturday, June 18, 2011

Think Journal Symposium Issue

I received the latest Think Journal in the mail. No poetry this time, just a sustained round-table discussion of the idea that writing poetry is somehow deeply mathematical.

As usual with poetry, it's hard to get the experts to agree on using the same terms for the same things.

I haven't finished the issue yet, but it splashes open with an essay by David J. Rothman, who maintains that the poet must count while she works.

Counting her words, tuh-dum, tuh-dum,
hearing them mount to a rhythmic sum,
dancing along on delicate feet,
computing her way till the song is complete.

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