READ/DISCUSS: Billy Collins poems
WRITING: Two Cora Brooks Exercises:
This is not
Dream of a Thing
SAMPLE:
This is not really an attempt to say what anything is
by trying to describe what it is not for it is not
a representation of a thing and yet it is a thing,
a drawing which IS a thing but a drawing
need not BE OF a thing.
It is not just a three dimensional object reduced to two
dimensions-
lines, circling, slashing across a large piece of paper
blue ink spilling across a blank space,
some THING emerging out of NO-THING.
It is not a singular mind’s creation—abstract or concrete—
and while it was intended to be collaborative, it is not
a collaborative work of art.
It is not a flame, a game, or the name of anything.
It cannot be defined, cannot be explained, cannot be found
In our words. Like
the attempt to write a poem—
it is not solid and cannot be grasped in its entirety.
Piecemeal, partial, it invites us.
Sept. portfolio--please submit all assignments for your Sept. portfolio grade/3-/30 poems and previous assignments
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