Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

06/10/2008

"I love writers like ee cummings and Emily Dickinson that push the norm and play with the accepted standards. I’m intrigued by Breeze’s style which appears to push the envelope even farther. The question that logically follows, though, is at what point do we loose the art itself in our attempts to break the mold? Is there some form required to keep within the parameters of art? What separates art from nonart?
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If nothing else, this challenges me to experiment with incorporating other mediums within my own writing. I also have a tendency to want to use the high vocabulary I work so hard to equip my students with, but this article has challenged me to consider using more vernacular wordings and phrases. Finally, I am challenged to consider poetry to be more than just words on a page."

-prematurely grey

07/06/2007

"I only consistently read 4 Aussie poets - Jack Tranter, mez breeze, Sam Byfield [for eg] and I qualify this group as some of the greatest poetry being written today... [Australia] to me [is] a land steeped in Literature, writing English – but the break-throughs have been only recent – mez breeze’s work, fx – here’s a poet who has taken the notion of ‘communication’ in poetry to its extreme – ...she is in the midst of creating poetry anew..."

-William Fairbrother in The Critical Poet