<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>""There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small<br>
(or large) machine made out of words. When I say there's nothing<br>
sentimental about a poem, I mean that there can be no part that is<br>
redundant. Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matter like a ship.<br>
But poetry is a machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy."<br><br></div>Margaret, if we change the word "redundant" to "non-functional," one might as well be describing modern architecture of Bauhaus, etc. I wonder if our era has not gone beyond that stage and requires a different aesthetic, one more in tune with the realities of our times.<br><br></div>Ciao,<br></div>Murat<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Margaret J Rhee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrhee@uoregon.edu" target="_blank">mrhee@uoregon.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
"There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small<br>
(or large) machine made out of words. When I say there's nothing<br>
sentimental about a poem, I mean that there can be no part that is<br>
redundant. Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matter like a ship.<br>
But poetry is a machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.<br>
As in all machines, its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical<br>
more than a literary character."<br>
<br>
I'd like to start a thread about this quote by WCW, that Mike raised here.<br>
A friend the Mexican poet Hugo Martinez, remarked we should replace machine<br>
with machete.<br>
<br>
"There must be something hardwired into its machinery--a heartbeat, a<br>
pulse--that keeps it breathing." -- Ed Hirsch<br>
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