Some have cool cafés, some have fun pubs and bars and bistros. Mine's a lazy piknik.
Although yep, I am serious about this being a lazy blog. Since I will just be posting a link here about José Garcia Villa and his connection with e.e. cummings. I found it to be quite a fascinating read (8 pages) http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/cummings/Cowen10.pdf
and another link about a commentary on the aphorisms of these 2 poets (10 pages) http://faculty.gvsu.edu/websterm/cummings/cowen17.pdf
José Garcia Villa is known for his reversed consonance rhyme scheme (see I am really lazy, I don't even want to explain right now what it is but in his words, it is :
“The last sounded consonants of the last syllable, or the last principal consonant of a word, are reversed for the corresponding rhyme. Thus, a rhyme for near would be run; or rain, green, reign.”
He is also known as the Comma Poet (hmmm to some, reading his comma poems can be quite maddening, but I have to admit, that for me, it did intrigue me to a certain extent, so as to include some wee bit of profusion of commas in a few lines of my stuff. He highlighted the importance of this punctuation mark, and even likened to his technique to Seurat's pointillism. I'm REALLY really lazy to discuss this now in my own words, so if you are intrigued by it, please do read up on it more. Thank you.
So what's the point of this 'piknik' of mine? Hmm, maybe just to sort of put a spotlight on him... eep sorry, I know I am doing a sucky job of it. But still, better now than never.
Before I forget, his penname was Doveglion (dove, eagle, lion) -- to him, the portrait of a poet is described as "gentle as a dove, free as an eagle and fierce as a lion"
Here's something from his "The Anchored Angel"
And, lay, he, down, the, golden, father,
(Genesis', fist, all, gentle, now)
Between, the, wall, of, China, and,
The, tiger, tree, (his, centuries, his,
Aerials, of, light) —
Anchored, entire, angel!
He, in, his, estate, miracle, and, living, dew,
His, fuses, gold, his, cobalts, love,
And, in, his, eyepits,
under, the, liontelling, sun —
The, zeta, truth — the, swift, red, Christ.
The, red-thighed, distancer, swift, saint,
Who, made, the, flower, principle,
The, sun, the, hermit's, seizures,
And, all, the, saults, zigzags, and,
Sanskrit, of, love.
Verb-verb, noun-noun:
Light's, latticer, the, angel, in, the, spiderweb:
By, whose, espials, from, the, silk, sky,
From, his, spiritual, ropes,
With, fatherest, fingers, lets, down,
Manfathers, the, gold, declension, of, the, soul.
Crown, Christ's, kindle, Christ! Or, any, he,
Who, builds, his, staircase, fire —
And, lays, his, bones, in, ascending,
Fever. Verb-verb, king's, spike — who, propels,
In, riddles! Six-turbined,
Deadlock, prince. And, noun,
Of, all, nouns: inventor, of, great, eyes: seesawing,
Genesis — unfissured, spy: His, own, Arabian,
his, love-flecked, eye!
The, ball, of, birth, the, selfwit, bud,
So, birthright, lanced, I, hurl, my, bloodbeat, Light.
And, watch, again, Genesis', phosphor, as,
Blood, admires, a, man. Lightstruck,
Lightstruck, into, the, mastertask,
No, hideout, fox, he, wheels, his, grave, of,
Burning, and, threads, his,
Triggers, into, flower: laired,
In, the, light's, black, branches: the, food, of,
Light, and, light's, own, rocking, milk.
But, so, soon, a, prince,
so, soon, a, homecoming, love,
Nativity, climbs, him, by, the, Word's, three, kings.
— Or, there, ahead, of, love, vault, back
And, sew, the, sky, where, it, cracked!
And, rared, in, the, Christfor, night,
Lie, down, sweet, by, the, betrayer, tree,
To-fro, angel! Hiving, verb!
First, lover, and, last, lover, grammatiq:
Where, rise, the, equitable, stars, the, roses, of, the, Zodiac,
And, rear, the, eucalypt, towns, of, love:
— Anchored, Entire, Angel:
Through, whose, huge, discalced, arable, love,
Bloodblazes, oh, Christ's, gentle, egg: His, terrific, sperm.
and a couple of his Xocerisms (aphorisms):
To read between the lines is Logic.
To read between the lines when there are no lines is Imagination
[and] Reason is merely connecting the dots but intelligence is the creation of those dots
he has a Twitter page (I have NO idea who created it)
https://twitter.com/dovegli0n
Since again, this is my lazy blog, I won't even say right now my thoughts on this. But in any case any of you would want to give your thoughts on this particular poem, please feel free to discuss. Thank you. Hopefully, I can drop by and join in the discussion. This blog of mine is turning out to be soo promising :p ---- .
On the other hand, I think I would also understand if nobody comments or would want to discuss it, given how lazy I've been here. Oops. I'm just being kinda weird, posting this now. I kind of hate myself for some reason for not expounding too much about this (haha imagine how loong this would be if I actually did!!), knowing how I could maybe do a more in-depth discussion, but yes I am lazy (insert your sigh of mega-relief here).
Also just putting it out there-- next time I want to blog about commas again,,,,,,,,
Corny me also of course had to put this (for those checking out this blog, some of you prolly saw this coming, me including this?) Of course, I had to put this in!! Presenting--- Culture Club's Karma Chameleon :D
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