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Feeling I was too cavalier and quick to dismiss Bonvicino yesterday. Typical dumb American, unwilling to open to another language – that was part of it. Also, the thought of wondering why am I reading poetry. What am I looking for? Entertainment? Learning opportunities? New Ways? New Worlds? New language rivulets eroding the mind? Mastery? Power? Love?<\/p>\n

Translation is important. Here’s another link in the tradition of oddly limited links about poetics:
\nPrograms: Conversations on Poetics<\/a> There is one conversation. It is from May 30, 2002. It says translation is important. I agree. My language skills are limited, however. If I was an editor, I would definitely want to include some translation in my journal, but my skill in judging the quality of the translation would be weak. <\/p>\n

Allusion – the Internet has made a large difference in coping with obscure allusions in poetry. A few keystrokes, and I can find out who Nolde is. I’m not sure how he functions in the poem. But I know he belonged to the Der Blaue Reiter group, and painted “Unpainted Pictures” – watercolors that he secretly stashed after being forbidden to paint by the Nazis. And he had an intense preoccupation with flowers. <\/p>\n

Nolde often seems to carve out a crude, primitive icon for his subject \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a peasant drawing of a person or religious figure \u00e2\u20ac\u201d then to pour into it a raw brew of expressionist color, in the way Frankenstein filled his monster with lightning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

handprint : emil nolde<\/a> by Bruce MacEvoy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Note: handprint is an interesting site, with a section on Wittgenstein. I’ll have to browse around there some more.)<\/p>\n

I don’t know how to wrap this up. This blogging, it’s fragmented and meandering. I feel like that is ecologically sound, but frowned upon in poetic and classic writing circles. Oh well, invention. <\/p>\n

I know that myosotis is forget-me-not. I didn’t have to look that up, but I did anyway, just to check. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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