Today’s poem had an interesting birth. Earlier in the day I was reading ‘The Ubuweb: Anthology of Conceptual Writing’ . The article discusses the idea that conceptual poetry turns its back on traditional ‘romantic’ notions of poetry being a vehicle for emotional expression and instead, embraces procedure and logical process.
Later I was thinking about ideas for today’s poem. I decided to go through my ‘rescued’ poem process (read more about that here) using the Ubuweb article about conceptual writing as my source text.
Here’s the rather interesting result: a conceptual/constrained piece about itself.
art crossings
poetry experiments
misapplied language
allowed,
respaced;
the presented form
scored,
conceptual;
extraordinary writing abstractions,
which the story words,
string legible pleasures and
bleed verbal probabilities,
reengineering écriture possibilities;
a collection of cannot language
a recall to chance concept
vibrate structures
into sculpture:
the idea of
truth itself
embodied
in rigorous procedure
and derived into presence
