This poem illustrates
that a poem can be read in many different ways (even more than normal poems do)
because the format is so different. The format forces the reader to make
decisions about how they want to read the poem and what they’ll take away from
the poem. The poem is in the format of a map, and the reader chooses the path
they have to take.
This poem feels like
the internet and chaos. Though it’d be hard to read this poem out loud, it
translates to the reader very easily, because we are living in the digital age.
Though this poem doesn’t mean one specific concrete thing, if the reader uses
the internet, then they understand the poem.
Erica Baum - Piano Rolls-Roll Playing
http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/baum/Baum-Erica_Roll-Playing.pdf
This poem feels like
a Christmas ornament, but it also tells a story. The words feel like the
translation of the bars of sound, and they add more to the poem, than if it had
just been the sound bars. The sound bars and the text work well together, and
feel like they belong together.
Charles Bernstein & Susan Bee – Disfrutelos http://www.ubu.com/contemp/bernstein/Disfrutelos_Bee-Bernstein_c1977.pdf
This is playful and
even though some of it isn’t actual words, it still translates a playful feeling
to the reader. It feels as if language has fallen apart but Bernstein and Bee
are using that to their advantage. It feels like they made up a language, but
it’s also a universal thing that anyone can understand.
I love websites that
are a single page and that’s all they are and they don’t have any other links
or pages or anything. They are their own singular thing and they are standing
alone. I love the finality of it, and I love the idea of being entertained by a
singular page and not having to go any further. Also, the pacing is fantastic.
Claude Closky - The First Thousand Numbers Classified in
Alphabetical Order http://ubu.com/concept/Claude_Closky_1000.pdf
The fact that someone
took the time to alphabetize a thousand numbers is amazing. It’s relatable and
it makes sense, because numbers can
become such a neurotic thing. A poem about numbers would already be neurotic
but by turning the entire poem into alphabetized numbers, it takes it to a
level that no one would expect it to be at.
I love that these are
all declarative statements and answers to questions that I don’t get to see. I
would love to hear this read out loud (I’d love to read it out loud) and I like
imagining the side of the conversation that isn’t present.
This poem is saying
different things but they are all the same thing. Empty box is the end of
something, the end of your life could be described as an empty box. Then all
the words collapse onto each other, which is how the end of life could feel.
The author is saying the exact same thing through multiple channels.
This is fantastic because
it takes normal internet things and lumps them all together. By publishing them
in this way, it gives them more importance, but then at the same time, it puts
them all on the same level. They all become noise when they’re presented as one
giant lump paragraph. But they are just noise, because youtube comments are
trivial and stupid.
I love this because I
have kept receipts before and thought about turning them into poems. Some
receipts are poems. All language that is presented in a format can be a poem.
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