I've given this alot of thought lately but I really can't settle on one thing or even completely formulate an idea. One of the ideas I've had floating around in my head is to take a Charles Simic book of poems (i.e. Walking the Black Cat, whatever), read it, pick several poems to re-write/appropriate line for line, and then write a poem appropriating my appropriation, hence an original work. This could really be done to any book of poems, suggestions would be great, I'd love to reads something new. This is wildness in the sense of tearing apart a tried and true, and stealing someone elses thoughts. For me this would be an opputunity to try a new method of generating materials as my inspiration to write anything has been rather wan lately.
There is also this book that my friend has been hounding me to read, Story of the Eye by George Bataille. I really have no idea how I could base a project around such a sexually explicit story, but if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. The wildness of George Bataille and his egg is pretty obvious, or so I think.
That's it, that's my brain shriveling/help me.
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i send you a great lakes sampler.
do it.
i want to read new
new
kelly poems.
Kelly,
Here's an idea:...
Here's the idea/assignment...:
1) Take Bataille's book (or Jenny Boully's The Body or William Wordsworth's The Prelude or Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus) and play the appropriation game with it in its entirety. In other words, don't write some poems, write a book. Bataille's is only 104 pages long (and the others I mentioned are shorter). I have faith that you can do this ( or, at the very least, a huge chunk of it--perhaps it'll continue to the end of the semester). We'll talk about the logistics on Wednesday. Or you can back-channel email me with questions/ concerns.
Then 2) Write a short paper (2-3pp) about the wildness, wilderness, and bewilderment of the "tearing apart of a tried and true" in relation to the book you've produced.
This'll be awesome.
Matt
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