tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13173932.post116475108580092666..comments2024-01-27T12:33:01.469-05:00Comments on Bloggamooga: Owen and Riley and fiction in betweenUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13173932.post-1165172744570635442006-12-03T14:05:00.000-05:002006-12-03T14:05:00.000-05:00the old wrestling days...lemme see...i remember sw...the old wrestling days...lemme see...i remember sweet daddy seekie and maurice the magnificent and my personal fave, white owl...way back in the day when the audience decided whether or not a "wrestler" would fake elbow hammer his opponent when he got him wrapped up in the turnbuckle. they were our TV superheroes (besides roy rogers and superman)...today we watch fake reality shows and comicbook movies with multi-million dollar special effects, but pretend fighting between brothers is best.roxwordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08285663735302382941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13173932.post-1164830186030463292006-11-29T14:56:00.000-05:002006-11-29T14:56:00.000-05:00The phenomenon of the writer you speak of (i.e. th...The phenomenon of the writer you speak of (i.e. the poet and/or fiction writer) and their proclivity towards poetry or prose is an interesting one. Some writers are comfortable moving between the two, while others are strictly devoted to the one art form. I think of Joyce and Stein who began as poets but developed into fiction pioneers, yet their 'prose' could hardly be said to be prosaic. In fact, their work in poetry gave them a greater and more flexible facility with language when it came to create fiction.<BR/>It was only later in his career that bpNichol actually began writing anything resembling extended fiction; and while his poetry drew on North American sources of expression, his fiction had a more European flavour (might make a good exploratory thesis). Whereas, there are writers who are strictly poets and see fiction as a lesser language art, and there are also fictioneers who (as far as I know) didn't write poetry but whose fiction towers above most poetry - I'm thinking of writers like Pynchon here.<BR/>As far as John Degen's assertion that poetry and fiction are the same in that they both are sentence-based, nothing could be farther from the truth, except of course for those poets who write poetry as if it were prose; and then I question whether it is poetry at all. Case in point: most of the haiku I've read do not have any sentence structure, but rather rely on juxtaposed phrases without grammatical sequitur.melmothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14508714304571777745noreply@blogger.com