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Daniel Fleischman wrote a new blog post Poetry’s Loyal Accomplices in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 11 months agoWe’ve begun to think about translation and poetry in some pretty unfavorable terms as of late. After reading the clean shirt of it and framing ourselves, as readers, as accomplices to the poet/their speaker, […]
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Daniel Fleischman wrote a new blog post Translation through Poetic Landscapes in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years agoI think I’ve been taken by the idea that a “translation” can be thought of as a movement of some idea to another location. I find the blend of conceptual and physical metaphor really appealing; an idea is not […]
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Daniel Fleischman commented on the post, Embarking On A New Journey… (Genre), on the site
The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 10 months agoI’ll be in the CNF workshop next semester, too, if that gives you any comfort. In many ways I felt like poetry was my branching out as I’m most comfortable working in CNF, which I realized only after going through […]
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Daniel Fleischman edited the blog post Articulate Arguments in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months agoMaybe I’m just not that argumentative, but argument(/persuasion?) never occurred to me as a motivation for writing poetry before. Well, that’s not entirely true. I think we’re all always trying to argue, if not […]
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Daniel Fleischman commented on the post, “Scissor” Through, on the site
The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 10 months ago“The poems call on you to look harder at the world, whilst also saying that your view is only ever occluded.”
For quite a few of the poems (mainly in the “Syntax”) section, I found myself having to work at […]
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Daniel Fleischman edited the blog post Through, Syntax, Page 44, X. in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months agoI’ll think I’ll talk all little on one of the poems that really stuck out out to me in David Herd’s Through. On page 44 in the section “Syntax,” the poem “X.” really pushed me into a head space preoccupied with […]
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Daniel Fleischman commented on the post, I Am Trying To Become Smarter… Weird, I Know., on the site
The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 11 months agoI’m gonna take this opportunity to gush about word puzzles, which as Natalie said has some really cool interactions with form but, to be honest, I just think they’re really fun.
When I was younger, my […]
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Daniel Fleischman wrote a new blog post Paper or… pixels? in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 months agoI’m just gonna pose a question and give my answer since I can’t think of any good segues.
On what medium do you write poems?
All the talk on form, paper receipt rolls in class, and my compulsions to […]
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Daniel Fleischman commented on the post, Regret, on the site
The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 11 months agoI’ve never thought about thinking of college as a job, but I think I think of college as a job, too. What a good observation. I think I treat most things like a job. I need to get out of the habit of obligation. […]
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Daniel Fleischman wrote a new blog post More than one way to scan a cat in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 months agoI have a confession: I kinda really like scansion. From past experiences with poetry, I always felt meters and feet and stress were the drier elements that the old traditional people at the poetry headquarters […]
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Daniel Fleischman commented on the post, Brevity, pt. II, on the site
The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 11 months agoBrevity is quite the conundrum for me. It’s a double-edged sword. It’s the soul of wit, but also the dialect of the demagogue (that one’s mine). It lends authority rhetorically, but robs authority […]
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Daniel Fleischman wrote a new blog post Math is hard in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 months agoCan we talk about numbers? Yeah, yeah, It’s nobodies favorite, but I think we can agree everything has value, mathematical or otherwise.
I can’t seem to jump the gap in how certain numerical stanzas can inform […]
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Daniel Fleischman commented on the post, Week 3: Being a TA for Intro to Creative Writing, on the site
The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 11 months agoThe thought of teaching anyone anything has me petrified. Especially with something like creative writing, I have a hard time actually articulating my thoughts in such an up-in-the-air manner like speaking. I […]
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Daniel Fleischman wrote a new blog post The naive poet and erotic poetry in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 months agoOkay, so this may get a little personal, but I feel like reasoning through a topic that always leaves me a little perplexed: eroticism.
Poetry has a history with this subject and we’ve read a few poems that […]
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Daniel Fleischman commented on the post, Reflections on Form, on the site
The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 12 months agoYou’ve articulated a lot of the same insecurities I have about poetry. Thanks for that. But in all seriousness, I wouldn’t be surprised if this uncertainty ever goes away (If it has for someone, I’d like to meet […]
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Daniel Fleischman wrote a new blog post A to B and back again in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 12 months agoA little paragraph that stuck out to me in this week’s reading in A Little Book on Form (specifically the “How Free Verse Works” chapter) was when Hass recollects a conversation with Stanley Kunitz on formalized […]
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Daniel Fleischman commented on the post, What to workshop: the dead-end poem, on the site
The Contemporary Poem 8 years agoI like to think I bring in pieces I believe in. I’m not proud or satisfied with the work per se, but I think there’s something there whether it be in the content or rhythm or single metaphor. Lately, I’ve been […]
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Daniel Fleischman wrote a new blog post To new beginnings in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 8 years agoI’m going to do something a little selfish with my first blog post and just ramble a bit about how I currently feel about poetry. Hopefully, this will serve as a baseline for myself, a point of reflection for my […]
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