Helena Book Festival
I just returned from a trip to Helena for the 3rd annual Book Festival. One interesting session was on the extravagance and excess in the contemporary poem. A Missoula professor provided examples of poetry which provokes thought and reflection. Harryette Mullen in her poem "Jinglejangle" from the book Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002)matches the letters of the alphabet with words to evoke thoughts about our society. Her "e" stream of consciousness words begin:
eager beaver Earl the Pearl easy greasy Eat a Pita
eenie-meenie Etch-a-Sketch
Evel Knievel Even Stephen Eye in the Sky...
By not using grammatical syntax, the reader is left to make connections within their own world view.
More on the festival later.
eager beaver Earl the Pearl easy greasy Eat a Pita
eenie-meenie Etch-a-Sketch
Evel Knievel Even Stephen Eye in the Sky...
By not using grammatical syntax, the reader is left to make connections within their own world view.
More on the festival later.
posted by Norma Glock at
12:15 PM
3 Comments:
If this is poetry, it sure doesn't match what I was taught in school...but I like it. What is your reaction?
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Norma Glock, at 12:33 PM
I think North Pole Middle School Students would like this poetry, since it is so confusing for us adults.
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Plan Be, at 2:43 PM
Another session I enjoyed at the Festival was the "what is the truth" in communication in the present day of technology changes. Memoirs are not always the exact way things happened as one author explained that he had to change things slightly in order to "compress time." With the present day world of blogging, "misquotes" are often reported and scrutinized much more than in the past. The line between fiction and non-fiction books is narrowing as fiction writers try to "get in right" when they are telling their story, and, as noted above, writers of true stories sometimes need to abbreviate the truth or "combine characters" to make a more readable story. Point of view also makes what is true for one person not necessarily true for someone else. I found it a very interesting panel with very knowledgeable people.
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Norma Glock, at 3:06 PM
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