It's an exciting feeling, the momentum of "something is going on." I think this first poem, "Yeah," is one of those elegant examples of a poem bending language and using sound to generate meaning in a way that is completely yours and your voice (I realize it's after Ted Berrigan, but it's still yours). I had to look up this quote from "The Triggering Town" because it says it better than me:
"So you are after those words you can own and ways of putting them in phrases and lines that are yours by right of obsessive musical deed."
I think you've done that well here. Plus it's so playful!
I could go on about all of these poems, but that would be a lot of words in a small comment box. I realize I'm coming to this post a few months late, but I hope the momentum and things going on keep going on.
Thanks, Rachel! I appreciate it. Been a while since I've thought of The Triggering Town, but that one was huge when I started out as a student. That quote resonates for sure. <3
I just re-read the title essay last year. It had been over a decade since I'd read it. I found it refreshing (and also I like the way Hugo writes). I think about the "right of obsessive musical deed" often
It's an exciting feeling, the momentum of "something is going on." I think this first poem, "Yeah," is one of those elegant examples of a poem bending language and using sound to generate meaning in a way that is completely yours and your voice (I realize it's after Ted Berrigan, but it's still yours). I had to look up this quote from "The Triggering Town" because it says it better than me:
"So you are after those words you can own and ways of putting them in phrases and lines that are yours by right of obsessive musical deed."
I think you've done that well here. Plus it's so playful!
I could go on about all of these poems, but that would be a lot of words in a small comment box. I realize I'm coming to this post a few months late, but I hope the momentum and things going on keep going on.
Thanks, Rachel! I appreciate it. Been a while since I've thought of The Triggering Town, but that one was huge when I started out as a student. That quote resonates for sure. <3
I just re-read the title essay last year. It had been over a decade since I'd read it. I found it refreshing (and also I like the way Hugo writes). I think about the "right of obsessive musical deed" often