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TBO_'s Weekly Poetry Thread #1
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I've got nothing to do at the moment, so I'm going to post up a weekly poem for the board's general edification. Feel free to discuss it below, or don't.
'Dream Song 4' by John Berryman
Filling her compact & delicious body
with chicken páprika, she glanced at me
twice.
Fainting with interest, I hungered back
and only the fact of her husband & four other people
kept me from springing on her
or falling at her little feet and crying
'You are the hottest one for years of night
Henry's dazed eyes
have enjoyed, Brilliance.' I advanced upon
(despairing) my spumoni.--Sir Bones: is stuffed,
de world, wif feeding girls.
--Black hair, complexion Latin, jewelled eyes
downcast . . . The slob beside her feasts . . . What wonders is
she sitting on, over there?
The restaurant buzzes. She might as well be on Mars.
Where did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law against Henry.
--Mr. Bones: there is.
This can ONLY go well
was expecting the first reply to be 'please leave the boards'
please leave the boards
i didnt mean to this this
believe me
haha, I made my own one ages ago under a different account
can't find it now
have you earned the right to john carpenter the place up?
idk
think I need to find a job
Like the idea
Choose your poem more carefully next time though
oops, yes
I've posted this particular one on here before and people liked it- perhaps it is a bit odd to read/sexist though.
I obviously love the poem. Nice idea too, fuck the haters.
what do you think of alt lit
Generally, I quite like it.
some dude called Richard Melo provides a good-ish definition:
It's like all those books you never hear on the radio but have a following anyway. Alt lit is the reader's equivalent of midnight movies or college radio. It's the type of writing your high school English teacher wouldn't understand. Alt lit has a touch of the subversive and aligns more with punk than the straight world although it can be in disguise. It's underground but doesn't need to be. Providing examples of alt lit is tough, because while there are alt lit type books with wide familiarity (like 'House of Leaves'), it's hard to find alt lit readers who have read the same alt lit, and it ends up sounding like the name dropping of obscure titles. I'm not a genre snob, but I think alt lit needs to have an edge in form as well as content. For example, just featuring a character with tattoos doesn't make it alt lit by itself. The way the story is told should have an alt-y vibe as well.
though people I know have been calling Twilight 'alt lit'
they can go away
lol
ALT-Y VIBEZ
GOOGLING "WHAT IS ALT LIT"
:DDDDDDDDDDDd
he actually did that. He actually did.
lt lit...that's the good stuff, the heart of writing...fresh meat (or veggies if you prefer)...it's at first considered weird or maybe quirky by the more wary readers...it's cutting edge stuff that eventually becomes popular just like alternative music once everyone else catches on to it, by then it's time to look for the next generation...it's new and vibrant, it's unlike anything, sounds like nothing you've ever read before...it's special...it's not necessarily created by writers under 30. It's the stuff that makes one glad to be alive, and still reading.
Y'know, for me...
If it's different from 'before' then someone with literal tendencies will call it reactionary ... wrongfully and rightfully. It need not be so different, so long as the effect renders the reader awareness of a new and unusual enviroonment. I really do like what Michael developed above, an alternative trifecta based on what, how, and where. Think much of what exists in online 'alternative' fiction is minimalist and brautigan-like. Poems disguised as prose. Love the way it's developed into new forms and curious twists in perspective, some of which are at once brutal and magnificent. Not to say it's difficult to wade through the vast wasteland of self-initiated publication to find such gem-like creations. Maybe the role of editorial gatekeeper is one that will slowly disappear for a while, but eventually come back in new guises. I digressed. Sue me.
I will sue you, i'm an alt lit player.
I am an alt lit player according to the influential online journal ‘Alt Lit Gossip’. Before 2012 I considered myself only a chronicler of alt lit goings-on. With a new year though comes a new attitude. I host alt lit writers at my apartment. I told them of my idea to become more involved in the community through various articles and poems. Sometimes I roll them out on my blog but that’s rare. Lately I’ve been more interested it showing my work to new groups of people, seeing what I can improve upon with my writing/presentation/style. I’m trying to become a better writer. I’m actually passionate about writing. This is surprising to me as I’m not a particularly passionate person. Right now I’m okay but I can become better.
I consider some of my stuff alt lit though that may sound like I am being a braggart--maybe it isn't. My short piece BANG BANG and some of my poems are out there. But sometimes impenetrable.
please fuck off
haha
nahh you can't even play the cyberbully card, you're the one who googled something and pretended to pass off what google told you as your own knowledge instead of just saying `i don't know what that is`. That's hilarious regardless of who you are.
wasn't playing the cyberbully card anyway, squire.
you make a fair point though; i should have asked if i didn't know.
Is this McSweeneys or something
I know what that is
really enjoying your poems man
Barrowman*
Hey Hal
seeing as you ain't had the decency to answer my pm, Ill drop this in here.
Gareth Barry + £5 million for Fabregas. You dig?
oops sorry, wasn't deliberately ignoring you
haven't been looking at my PMs
answered you
if anyone would like to recommend poems for future weeks
please message me