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Author Archives: Dennis Clark
in verse #8 : for good measure
“All early Welsh poetry is rhymed. The word awdl, used for the work of a chief bard, is the same as odl meaning rhyme, and an awdl was rhymed speech” as Gwynn Williams informs us[i]. This is an old, old … Continue reading
in verse # 7 : not just a pretty face
In a response to my last post, Jonathan Langford asked two questions that I wanted to answer immediately. But I made the mistake of thinking about his questions as I was formulating my answers, and my answers grew more complex. … Continue reading
in verse # 6 : verse control
It seems like lately every time this post is due, I’m away from home. In April, it was Pacific Grove; in May, Ithaca; in June, this month right here, yesterday, I was in Rock Creek Hollow. That’s up in Wyoming. … Continue reading
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Tagged An introduction to Welsh poetry from the beginnings to the sixteenth century, cyhydedd fer, cynghanedd, e.e. cummings, Englyn milwr, Englyn penfyr, Englyn unodl crwca., Englyn unodl union, Green Armor on Green Ground, Gwyn Williams, handcarts, John Keats, On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, Rolfe Humphries, Sarah Jane Jones Lloyd, wild sex, Willie Company
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in verse #5 : green armor
It was in his first class at the University of Washington, and my first poetry class in graduate school, that I met Leslie Norris. He walked into class that first day and said, in what we would all have surmised … Continue reading
in verse #4 : leafy teacups
Looking back, it seems that my first attempts at writing poetry were adventures in revision. What I remember revising first were songs, specifically Primary songs — although my mother insists that I was at work on the hymns in Sacrament … Continue reading
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Tagged Green Armor on Green Ground, hymn parodies, parody, Paul Toscano, revision, Rolfe Humphries, twisted hymns
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in verse #3 : Monster Bait
I was a graduate student at the University of Washington, studying Anglo-Saxon poetry, struggling to translate Beowulf, when I first thought of writing an epic poem about Joseph Smith in Anglo-Saxon verse. It’s a good thing I wasn’t studying Old … Continue reading
in verse #2 : reading allowed
Aloud is the only way you should read a poem. If hearing your own voice create the poem isn’t pleasing to you, the poem may not be a bad poem, and you may not be a bad reader, but one … Continue reading
in verse, #1 : in the beginning
I first thought of calling this bloggette “re verse,” after the blogmaster proposed “Poetry Corner,” because I intend to write about verse, not poetry. “Poetry” is a quality judgment applied to occurences of verse, and some writers deprecate their works … Continue reading
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Tagged Beowulf, Frederick Rebsamen, John McWhorter, poetry, reading aloud, Simon Armitage, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, verse
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