I don't know what I'm doing.
But, I'm going to explore metaphor through familial
relations, and vice versa, as an exercise to create poetry. The metaphor will
overpower truth, family will become fictional, time and place will be wrecked.
The point is to write under a framework, but unlike Walking Stiff Blues and
Transit Prosody, which were written at and about specific times and places in
New York City (some spontaneous, some not), the framework for Metaphorical
Family is . . . metaphor and familial relations (or archetypes).
To be redundant: metaphor will overpower truth. These
are not autobiographical. What writer can exclude autobiography from his work?
But you know what I mean. I hope.
As a part of the exercise, I'm going to sketch with blog
posts. Each post may or may not stand alone as a finished work, but there will
be something in it worth publishing. I will not waste your time and simply
vomit here.
My ultimate goal is to come back to these posts and condense
them or expand upon them to create a nice series of poems, so I may post second and third incarnations of these as I explore the archetypes.
Love the concept, love the framework. Can't wait!
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