Re: "New Poetic Visions: Octavio Paz"

vhug...@gmail.com wrote:

jdcha...@gmail.com wrote:
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On Friday, August 5, 2022 at 5:41:51 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:

On Friday, April 8, 2022 at 9:20:39 PM UTC-4, jdcha...@gmail.com wrote:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQyolQMnelM

Good choice, Jordy.
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I read a book by Octavio Paz several years ago:
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On Monday, August 6, 2018 at 8:30:54 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery

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On Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at 3:06:58 AM UTC-4, Bean Counter

wrote:

On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 4:19:57 PM UTC-4, Will

Dockery wrote:

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Nice section in the book Strange Bedfellows (And "The

History of Modern

Poetry", Page 311 by David Perkins, which is where Steven

Watson seems to

have gotten most of his information) about the movement

that took off around

1910 (and not before in any major way, although the form

can be traced back

as far as Beowulf, the writer claims) the "Poets of Revolt"

aka "Free

Versers".
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Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell seem to me to be the most famous

poets of this

group. In 1912, Pound wrote "I believe in /Absolute

Rhythm/, that is [...]

poetry that corresponds exactly to the emotion being

expressed..."

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The Poets of Revolt term was supposedly generic for the new

poets, the

writers of the 1910s also known as "free-versers" and vers

librists, because

they championed the rise of free verse, which replaced

fixed stanzas, meter

and rhyme with Absolute Rhythm, as Erza Pound called it.
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In addition, there were other distinctive factions during

1910-1917 and

beyond...
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The Tramp Poets (!) aka Hobohemians, led by Vachel Lindsay,

Harry Kemp and

others, The Patagonians, Imagists and the Otherists all fit

under the

generic (and sometimes sneering) label of Poets of Revolt,

the Free-Versers.

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Poets loosely associated with these groups included:
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Richard Aldington
Amy Lowell
Vacel Lindsay
Harry Kemp
Donald Evans
Allen Norton
Louise Norton
H.D.
Mina Loy
William Carlos Williams
Alfred Kreymborg
Ezra Pound
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In the Saturday Evening Post of April 7th 1917 Sinclair

Lewis wrote:

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"It is called /free verse/ because it doesn't pay."
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And so it goes... so it shall ever be.
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:D

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Greatest of the old school not to be forgotten......

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Ping: Jordy:
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I'm reading of another from that great generation of poets,

Octavio Paz:

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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1974/05/16/dazzling-and-dizzying/

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"This is the mirror that devours mirrors..." -Octavio Paz,

“Masks of Dawn”

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"Playful and pompous by turns, cosmopolitan, provincial, lucid,

hazy, brave, evasive, Octavio Paz is the Platonic idea of a Latin
American intellectual; and not the least of his achievements is to fill
with charm and distinction and irony that difficult and wearying role.
For the intellectual in Latin America is critic, clown, priest, radical
agitator, and Victorian school-master all at once—a man for far too many
seasons. He must evaluate the past, scoff at the present, bless new
movements in literature and art, discreetly encourage the right kind of
revolution, and compose ritual letters of recommendation for his country
and countrymen. Among other things..."

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COOL... hi there JC my pal......

hello GZ

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