Personism.
My blogs
- Grace to be born and live as variously as possible
- The Title's Relationship To The Blog Is Unknown!
- the captain and el futuro
| Location | Phoenix, AZ |
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| Introduction | One day after lunch with a friend, the poet Frank O'Hara wrote a poem for someone he was in love with. During the writing of the poem he realized "that if I wanted to I could use the telephone instead of writing the poem." And, yet, something about the form compelled him to write the poem. He called this something, "Personism" and "[...] one of its minimal aspects is to address itself to one person (other than the poet himself), thus evoking love without destroying love's life-giving vulgarity [...]". That might be a little unclear, that's why I like it. Ultimately, "it puts the poem squarely between the poet and the person, Lucky Pierre style, and the poem is correspondingly gratified." Once you know what Lucky Pierre refers to, you can understand a little more about "love's life giving vulgarity." Essentially this blog puts the written word--the letter--between me and the person. Minus Lucky Pierre. |