Workshop·Live, one to one·Two classes · two hours
Clinic of a poem
Two live meetings, one to one, on Zoom. The times are arranged with you. In the first, someone else's poem is looked at for the procedure, not for whether it is liked. In the second, one tool from that poem is tried on a text of your own.
Liking it does not say how it is made.
Ground
Liking or not liking does not say how a poem is made. The question is what the poem does, and where.
Aim
- Read someone else's poem for its procedure, not for whether it is liked.
- Name one tool that poem uses.
- Try that tool on a text of your own.
It trains
Say what a poem does, and try that operation.
Contents
1The procedure
1.1Not taste
Liking it or not does not say how it is made.
1.2What it did
The question is what operation the poem performs, and where.
1.3Only one
You choose one tool. Not a catalogue.
2Someone else's poem
2.1The reading
A poem by another writer, read whole before you give an opinion.
2.2Name it
The tool is said in one sentence, not as an impression.
2.3Where it shows
You point to the line where that operation happens.
3Your own text
3.1Bring one
Short, and one you can touch in the hour.
3.2Try it
The same tool, not a similar one.
3.3One adjustment
You rewrite a passage and read it. Nothing more.
Questions
Who chooses the author's poem?
The laboratory brings it for that edition. If you want to propose one, write it beforehand.
Is it a class of admiration?
No. We do not talk about whether the author is great. We look at the procedure.
Do I need to have done the others?
No. A short poem of your own is enough.
What if I don't think of myself as a poet?
You don't have to. The work is a text of yours. A short draft is enough. If there is no poem, one sentence is enough.
It is live, one to one, on Zoom. The time is arranged by email.
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