Projective verse
Projective verse
I recorded my voice when I was talking to my friends on the phone, when I was teaching in class and when I was talking to my dog. When I listened to them, I found one common element of the way of talking, which is: I don’t breathe! I go bla bla bla bla bla bla not until I finish one long sentence that I won’t stop. No wonder I always feel very tired after talking or speaking to friends. But I am softer when I am talking to my dog. According to Charles Olson’s Projective Verse, the ‘transference of poetic (though my words aren’t really poetic) energy from source to’ speech to my audience should have made my audience tired too. However, I think I enjoy projective the power and energy while speaking. And I like my audience to receive the energy as well.
When I started reading Olson’s Projective Verse, I tried to figure out what this kind of poem is like. It mentions a lot of music terms. At the beginning, I attempted to compare the essence of this revolutionary to jazz, junky or rap. I imagined the energy of the poems should be powerful and with the help of breath, the message will be prominent. I really wanted to know how it should be a projective verse, I got online and found a video of Charles Olson reading his own poem Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld], throughout his reading, I could hear the pace/ rhythm created by his breathing, some are gentle, some are powerful like he is inhaling audience to the swirl of his words inside his stuffy nose and his loosened to tensed vocal. And the sounds oozed inside my ears and my heart. His breathing and vocal came to more overwhelming when he was reading:
Plus this—plus this:
that forever the geography
which leans in
on me I compell
backwards I compell Gloucester
to yield, to
change
Polis
is this The words are still tossing in my mind even when I am writing this. This reminded me of a line in
I recorded my voice when I was talking to my friends on the phone, when I was teaching in class and when I was talking to my dog. When I listened to them, I found one common element of the way of talking, which is: I don’t breathe! I go bla bla bla bla bla bla not until I finish one long sentence that I won’t stop. No wonder I always feel very tired after talking or speaking to friends. But I am softer when I am talking to my dog. According to Charles Olson’s Projective Verse, the ‘transference of poetic (though my words aren’t really poetic) energy from source to’ speech to my audience should have made my audience tired too. However, I think I enjoy projective the power and energy while speaking. And I like my audience to receive the energy as well.
When I started reading Olson’s Projective Verse, I tried to figure out what this kind of poem is like. It mentions a lot of music terms. At the beginning, I attempted to compare the essence of this revolutionary to jazz, junky or rap. I imagined the energy of the poems should be powerful and with the help of breath, the message will be prominent. I really wanted to know how it should be a projective verse, I got online and found a video of Charles Olson reading his own poem Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld], throughout his reading, I could hear the pace/ rhythm created by his breathing, some are gentle, some are powerful like he is inhaling audience to the swirl of his words inside his stuffy nose and his loosened to tensed vocal. And the sounds oozed inside my ears and my heart. His breathing and vocal came to more overwhelming when he was reading:
Plus this—plus this:
that forever the geography
which leans in
on me I compell
backwards I compell Gloucester
to yield, to
change
Polis
is this The words are still tossing in my mind even when I am writing this. This reminded me of a line in