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Mythology of Organic Poetry Workshop
Tuesday, May 5, 2009:
Week Five (Taste)
Week One (with links!)
Week Two
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
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Charles Olson – As
The Dead Prey Upon Us (audio, handout.)
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Discussion
of previous week. How’re the poems coming? Anyone want to read one or two? Didja
get a Mother Poem? Questions on Rothenberg essay? Can you read your interview
poem? Do you have info archetypes from last week? http://www.earthvision.info/archetypes
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American Sentences. (Audio – of A. Waldman & A.
Schelling, Handout)
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Charles Olson poems: Letter 2 (pg 9,) Maximus to
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Phrase Acrostic. (Handout.)
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Write
16 words that correspond to your notion of taste. Things you like to taste, or
that represent your past, present and future; your good side as well as your
shadow side. These are concrete words that you think taste good and it might be
weird. Paste. Cuticles. Grappa. Day old raisin bread. The sound of this word,
and especially the taste of it, brings up a memory, good or bad.
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Video
of Charles Olson Song Three (at 29:00 on Polis disc.)
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Exercise: Get a COOL poem title. (You can steal one, take a phrase
from someone’s poem or one of YOURS and write it down.) John Ashberry exercise, now go outside and get it. We’ll meet on
the front porch in 20 minutes.
Assignment:
1. Do research on your own name, first, middle,
last, maiden, nickname, etc.
2. Finish ALL words if not done already. 3. Browse http://www.earthvision.info/archetypes
COME BACK WITH THE MATERIAL ON THREE TO FIVE ARCHETYPES THAT RESONATE WITH YOUR
NOTION OF YOUR SELF. 4. Bring 50 index cards.
The boy's name Paul \paul\ is pronounced pahl.
It is of Latin
origin, and its meaning is "small". Popular Roman and medieval name used
commonly since the 18th
century.
Biblical:
the apostle
evangelist.
Paul's letters
to early
Christians
form the majority
of the books
of the New Testament.
Pablo is a Spanish form; Paolo is Italian; Paulino, Paulo are Portuguese;
Pal, Poul are Scandinavian;
Pauel is Dutch; Paulus is Latin; Pavel is Slavic; Pavlik, Pavlo are Russian; Paulson is English; Paulsen is Dutch, Scandinavian.
http://www.paulsadowski.com/Numbers.asp http://www.searchforancestors.com/surnames/origin/
http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/bl_meaning.htm
http://www.bostonuk.com/name_meanings.php
EVERETT (from EVERARD) Gender: Masculine Usage: English
(Rare) Means "brave boar", derived from the Germanic
elements eber
"wild boar" and hard "brave, hardy". The Normans
introduced it to