PoetryPreviews

Genre(s): African-American, Beats

Period: 1960s to the present

Lines: (from “Western Front”)

My intentions are colors. I’m filled with
color, every tint you think of lends to mine
my mind is full of color, hard muscle streaks,
or soft glow round exactness registration. All earth
heaven things, hell things, in colors circulate
a wild blood train, turn litmus like a bible coat, … Read more »

“[L]inear chronological autobiographical narrative is bullshit,” Ron Silliman, from “Albany.”

“Goal is not to have a goal,” John Cage.

“For modern poetry, since it must be distinguished from classical poetry and from any type of prose, destroys the spontaneously functional nature of language, and leaves standing only its lexical basis,” Roland Barthes, from Writing Degree Zero.

“Narrativity is short-circuited from the moment the reading process is spatialized,” Jerome McGann
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