This one's a team effort, so you have two options here.
a. Grab some old class notes, if you still have them, from a class you either really liked or really hated, and make some found poetry out of those. Do you actually remember anything you learned? Fill in the gaps if you can, without consulting any references. The stuff you make up will probably be better than the actual class material anyway. (Loosely, this could be like an extension of Etude 1, where you had to think about subjects/vocabularies you liked and hated.)
b. Take your notebook and sit in a coffee shop or other public place (ACAC? park bench? whatever). Write down scraps of conversation that you overhear. Not necessarily the interesting scraps, either--try being as continuous as possible for awhile. Then make some found poetry out of the notes you've taken.
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option "b" sounds an awful lot like an exercise that i came up with back in the poetry and poetics class when every student had to come up with their own exercise. THIEF.
ReplyDeleteit's ok crystal, i forgive you.
i still like it anyway. need to track down my tape recorder....
ReplyDeleteGeosciences Department Remix:
ReplyDeleteYou'd think they'd talk about rocks.
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Coraline
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element for at Government so You rapists.
Don't burned.
Some
Pro-lifers dancing are Dunks everything. cool
They look massive tonight
snow improving parents
causes me way. me the in Aphrodite.
Red to don't
ETUDE 4 ADDENDUM: Considering our readings, I think everyone should try to make either an open-ended serial poem or a procedural poem out of the materials that Crystal proposed. That's how it will be different that what you may have done before in other classes.
ReplyDeleteAgh. -_-
ReplyDeleteHere's my procedural poem.
ReplyDeleteI sat in 15th Street Coffee Shop for half-an-hour, recording the conversation I could hear. Then I took every fifteen lines of that "transcript" and put them into a separate document. I went through the "transcript" approximately five times, counting fifteen lines and then taking one, until I had a collection of "random" lines. I shaped those into what follows. The line breaks represent breaks in the transcript on which the 15-line count fell.
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I stand in my kitchen and talk, honey, I’m so sorry
I need those keys
wow, that’s so funny
I’m trying to download from Enlighten
nobody can hear me scream up here
[Introduce girl in thick glasses with bright red coat, dark stockings, short denim skirt,
shall we live in sin that grace may abound?
just giving you a hard time
you should come over and watch me
it’s dust
break pads are in, but rotors aren’t
Have trouble?
that’s what transforms
those are good. Really good.
“at this point I’m gettin’ a towel and some gloves”
sometimes you have to stop and care
what’s in your bubble?
I’ve got to go to Home Depot
don’t ask any questions
about African children
you’d probably get a kick out of it
she broke connection
do you need something?
glorious Emmaline
well, don’t let them confuse you
I transcribed whatever snippets I could until I had roughly a page written out. Then, starting from the bottom I split the page up into groups of 5 phrases. Each group I took as my wordbank for an unrhymed couplet of 6 words/line. It ended up being slightly more cohesive than I thought it would be given that the snippets are from 2 different conversations and couplets tend to sound sort of disjointed anyway.
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why just tolerate those minerals - the
house can't figure out, and won't
the time for hello will break
when I first see her stress
you don't want after to talk
test; anyway today, talk to her
she's trying to know. she doesn't.
watching, like membership, has its its
today she was I she was
scary - I found that was it
I wish you every, every chance
there's one, $12.99, another awesome it
my heavy heart observances: girl culture.
hahhaha! serious. now talent be laughter.
100 g crackers, 80 oz. protein
trying to water special, escape time
Using philosophy / religion notes that are over two years old, I tried to do a serial poem. Here's the first draft, but if I want it to live up to its title / be worth reading, I will need to work on it a lot more. It also has the potential to be much longer, since I have notes from four philosophy classes I liked.
ReplyDeletethe prodigal son story
a philosophical commune edited the gospel to suit their theology
exclusivity was another attraction
some biblical references kept recurring in different forms and names
ancient gods responsible for cycling of things do not create something from nothing
matter was irreformable. fatalistic.
the manichaean god is like a victim of the other evil god
who teaches men to be fathers?
washing would incur even greater guilt
she becomes a test case of what true religion is
characteristic nostalgia for home is pagan
who is the intermediary who shows us how to live?
does philosophy really dissolve those fetters?
teach us how to rebind and rediscover. sacraments are
heart turns love of wisdom
everyone built bad habits / encouraged vice together
envy has a social aspect
at some point there are limits
first failure to imitate
called to start a city by faith
the human city cannot save itself
even in its exilic condition
to be an object of love agathon was attractive
Socrates wanders off and is late to the party.
does he just not care about what others think, or is he being a flirt?
being so distracted is what makes him desirable to others.
presupposition that women are unintelligent and loved only for the body
love generates virtue
aristophanes gets the hiccups from overeating
it can be divisive
common love does not
"self-important prig"
religion steps in to ease away this resentment
to generate / restore love in / among parts of your body
we used to be complete
now Love draws us to find our other halves
reciprocal
communities will fail because of disordered passions
the wrong kinds of individuals
communities in trouble
love is praiseworthy because of the benefits it yields
children are one result of love, but virtue is better
children are a distraction
why is love depicted as desolate?
between understanding and ignorance
between mortal and immortal
we cannot manipulate it
this good produces happiness
possessing that good forever
yearning for immortality is built in
understand our lives in a form other than narrative
if we became bored, maybe it isn't good
aren't things good because they are fleeting?
the good thing hasn't changed. you have.
they aren't sure it's physically their child
progeny carrying on your memory
pregnancy is divine
this is how we "know" what something is
too simple, cannot be classified by parts or characteristics
therefore cannot be known.
an intermediate step toward no account of concrete love
distance doesn't commit to anyone
we have no idea what we seek
needing scriptures for credibility
a desire to distort the truth
friends can be dangerous
no passions distorted his judgment
and the person knows it isn't good
neither account for the inclination to turn away
objects of love become bitter apart from God
what does the rest look like
then the soul becomes aware
exposes to us the existing misery
the theater showcases our perversity
to be loved without these pitfalls
he needs to turn away from the mutable world
no lack of freedom
can put order into their love
we need salvation from this creature weakness
truth doesn't
if we cease to exist, it will still be true
we need to reconcile our loves
a redeemer taking us back to the truth
he falls off the ascent
makes promises he cannot keep
orders all other sciences
to see what happiness is
animals can't
come crashing down
downward until God draws us back to Himself
"I loved my fall"
others have no principle to evaluate
friendship is gratuitous
when speaking of all relationships as friendships
doesn't love himself befriend others?
you can make anyone blame this seeming discontent with modern acquaintances.
the matrix of friendship won't dismiss the idiosyncratic things that would separate us.
people are too weak and inconstant to nourish it into true virtue.
only invitation to grieve. care for the old.
no account needed to be confronted and modified
more questions can be incomplete
transforming providential rule created this knowledge in us
freedom is not necessarily the ability to choose
these form a list of abominations
counterfeit virtues
I will do you one better. this is not class notes, but rather a continuous transcription of the professors lecture, edited for your viewing pleasure.
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