Archive for October 22nd, 2007

Waiting for the Muse

I am very imperfect.
I let everything go.
I leave loose ends flying,
and threads trailing below.

Computer precision
is a new acquisition.

Like Andersen’s princess
and enchanted swans,
I leave wings uncovered
and ovens turned on.

So without supervision,
I’m ripe for collision.

My bills still need paying.
Clothes are strewn on the floor
while I wait for creation
to burst through from the core

But I cannot envision
any other position.

Lenore Rosenberg


Contrasting Views

"Literalism is a feature of boorish translators." Cicero "The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase." Nabokov

Introspectivist Manifesto, 1920

"In an introspective manner means that the poet must really listen to his inner voice, observe his internal panorama--kaleidescopic, contradictory, unclear or confused as it may be."

Sigmund Freud

"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me."

 

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