poetica

Smith non perde occasione di aggiornarsi ai suoni moderni, pur rimanendo fedele alla sua "poetica" clownesca, come dimostrano i brani da ballo, che sono forse il meglio del disco: la novelty alla B52's (coretto scipito, organetto stridulo) di The Little Rebel, il surreale Black Month Theme (un blues/rap balbettato su un organo gospel e un violino miagolante), il voodoobilly sgangherato (e deturpato da ogni sorta di campionamenti-spazzatura) di Extricate.

FallNews - they grease the roads! *truckers' pin-up edition* 1999

A selection from Wallace Stevens's Adagia – his aphorisms or materia poetica – culled from Opus Posthumous:

Adagia: Wallace Stevens on Life and Poetry 2009

A selection from Wallace Stevens's Adagia – his aphorisms or materia poetica – culled from Opus Posthumous:

2009 August 13 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

In fact, she believes in it, almost as an ars poetica: what accretes naturally always turns out to be exactly what's needed.

Riding a bike with no hands L. Lee Lowe 2009

In fact, she believes in it, almost as an ars poetica: what accretes naturally always turns out to be exactly what's needed.

Archive 2009-04-01 L. Lee Lowe 2009

This is an ars poetica she returns to again and again; it echoes her essay Walking Over Water 1991, in which she explored Tafdrup "the weight and force of images..., the momentary clarity a poem can produce."

Review David McDuff 2010

The title comes from the opening line of Wallace Stevens's almost Zen-like ars poetica, "The Snow Man" ( "One must have a mind of winter/To regard the frost and the boughs/Of the pine-trees crusted with snow …"), and the epigraph is dedicatory: "For Wallace Stevens in March."

Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010

This is an ars poetica she returns to again and again; it echoes her essay Walking Over Water 1991, in which she explored Tafdrup "the weight and force of images..., the momentary clarity a poem can produce."

Archive 2010-07-01 David McDuff 2010

Joachim Burmeister, in his Musica poetica Rostock, 1606, named him with Leonhard Lechner and Johann Knöfel as a representative of the stylus sublimis.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

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Helps keep the gene pool clean. Jessica Hagy 2007