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. ❋ Unknown (1999)

A selection from Wallace Stevens's Adagia – his aphorisms or materia poetica – culled from Opus Posthumous: ❋ Unknown (2009)

In fact, she believes in it, almost as an ars poetica: what accretes naturally always turns out to be exactly what's needed. ❋ L. Lee Lowe (2009)

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." ❋ Unknown (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." ❋ David McDuff (2010)

Happy to be part of this issue with an ars poetica poem that's also in NOTA BENE EISWEIN. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Joachim Burmeister, in his Musica poetica Rostock, 1606, named him with Leonhard Lechner and Johann Knöfel as a representative of the stylus sublimis. ❋ Lu (2009)

Paper Kite Press is due to release in November the much-anticipated poem, home: An Anthology of Ars Poetica, which grew out of a popular collaborative blog, Ars Poetica, that expanded as each featured poet recommended five poets to share ars poetica poems and so on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Labels: creeps, love, women comments: arse poetica said ... ❋ Jessica Hagy (2007)

This emerges beautifully in one of the most lovely and softly assertive passages of hers in the book, where she is talking initially about an Anton Webern record, then makes this into nothing less than an ars poetica: ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

Octavio Paz - I like Ladera este, but his Obra poetica (1935-1988) has everything. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think there's a lot to learn in using color to focus -- speaking as one who's often relied on ekphrasis, it can be considered part of ars poetica! ❋ Unknown (2009)

In it Carver offers his ars poetica for the short story, taking his stand for realism and accurate language, rejecting experimentation “tricks” for its own sake. ❋ Carol Sklenicka (2009)

Constantin said ... arse poetica: "Constantin, I guarantee that you are in one of those countries!" ❋ Jessica Hagy (2007)