Cat Fitzpatrick
I have written over 10,000 lines of iambic pentameter AMA
Typesetter & Editrix @littlepuss.net // Author of The Call-Out: A Novel in Rhyme
- The dog is inescapable, yes. but the fox? The fox is very uncatchable
- My Dad's favorite movies were The Card (1952) Topper (1937) Topkapi (1964) The Italian Job (1969) Captain Blood (1935) Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
- Having to take a medicine daily: a drumbeat in the symphony of life; a moment of self-care. Having to take a medicine monthly: a beautiful ritual; an encounter with the moon goddess. Having to take a medicine weekly: A horrifying reminder that time is passing too fast and that one day I will die.
- I’m doing Du Fu’s 秋日阮隱居致薤三十束 and can’t think of a way of handling 關鬲冷 in the penultimate line that doesn’t sound like ass. (Owen has “my viscera are cold,” so at least I’ve got company.) Any ideas?
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View full thread"Chill" had lack of vigour, low temperature and illness (but not infection like "cold")?
- "Chill in my belly" would be euphonious and summon "fire in my belly" by opposition
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- tbloke slog?
- My spicy take on "poet voice" is that it's just the audible equivalent to the visual signifier of keeping line breaks in poetry that doesn't have metrical lines any more
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View full thread"if the fool would persist in his folly..."
- If you do poet voice hard enough my guess is you will probably invent doggrel which, as Byron and Marvell and Skelton will tell you, is actually one of the noblest forms verse can take
- WEAPONISATION
- If you complain about song-song intonation and exaggerated pauses in readings of prose poems but are fine with arbitrary line breaks in prose poems in print you are INCONSISTENT
- The question, if you reasonably prefer not to learn meter, is not "why do we do poet voice?" still less "how can we avoid it?" it is "how can poet voice be WEAPONISED?"
