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HG Poetics: The Illustrated Stubborn Grew
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Henry Goulds poetry and poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.com. The Illustrated Stubborn Grew. 15 years ago, Spuyten Duyvil Press published Stubborn Grew. A quasi-epic poem rooted in Rhode Island. The book never got much attention. I've decided to re-introduce it by way of a new blog, The Illustrated Stubborn Grew. Which, by way of excerpts, commentary and photos, will delve into the poem's local background and foreground. Come and see! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Illustrated Stubborn Grew.
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HG Poetics: Literary contests and The Contest
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Henry Goulds poetry and poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.com. Literary contests and The Contest. He was something of an outsider for a long time (his whole life). I guess I can identify with that. My own changeful, discombobulated, nomadic life of late (back and forth on U.S. 80 between Providence and Minneapolis) has somewhat dislocated me from my own patterns of self-confidence, you might say. I am out of the library where I lived as a quiet squirrel for 30 years. It's good (I hope). I was right i...
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HG Poetics: September 2014
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Henry Goulds poetry and poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.com. For some reason, not sure why, a few weeks ago I started immersing myself in anthropology. Books on human prehistory, ancient kingship, ritual. Reading Sir James Frazer, am Hocart, Rene Girard, Walter Burkert, Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King. Very interesting novel), many other things. Burkert and Girard both published their seminal works (Girard, Violence and the Sacred. Burkert, Homo Necans. Edited by Burton Mack, which is a sympo...
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HG Poetics: May 2015
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Henry Goulds poetry and poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.com. Of Hiawatha carrying Minnehaha across the stream.). 528 May 28. I finished the long poem (about 600 pp.) Forth of July. On 528.2000. The poem circles around (among other things) the early New England Anglican minister and freethinker and librarian and orchardist and Seeker William Blackstone. First exile from Boston. Early settler (pre-Roger Williams) in Rhode Island. He shows up in many of my poems (see the books Lanthanum. Poets are tho...
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HG Poetics: The Illustrated Stubborn Grew stubbornly persists
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Henry Goulds poetry and poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.com. The Illustrated Stubborn Grew stubbornly persists. Finished tour of Stubborn Grew. Part one yesterday. On to the second half of the book. To my knowledge this online survey of a long poem is fairly unique. I'm not aware of similar examples. Who knows, maybe it will be found worthy of interest to the public one day. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The whole race is a poet. What thou lovest well. Sunk too deep for publication.
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HG Poetics: June 2015
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Henry Goulds poetry and poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.com. As testified by both Annie Akhmatovy and Wheelliam Bootler Yeats (not to mention Wally Stuyvens), nobody knows like they do how much poetry depends upon the foul rag-&-bone shop of the dump. So I confess I am very obscurely fixated on a work of probable horoscopic Masonic garbage (if seemingly very diligently researched) by one David Ovason, titled The Secret Architecture of our Nation's Capital. The "venn diagram" of Ravenna Diagram.
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HG Poetics: November 2014
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Henry Goulds poetry and poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.com. Simone and Maximus and me. The French writer/philosopher/mystic Simone Weil appealed to me in the mid-1980s (still does). Ascetic worker/dreamer; deep Biblical exegete. I remember walking down to Seward's Folly. I adore that woman - but sometimes I want to grab her by the shoulders and give her a good shake! It meant something to me; I could identify with it. I'd been there. This is all by way of a lead-in to a second writer who (like Osi...
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HG Poetics: Walk through the painting
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Henry Goulds poetry and poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.com. Walk through the painting. Been very busy of late over there in yon Illustrated Stubborn Grew. Have to be - I'll be leaving town soon. I'm revisiting old Providence by way of an old poem. A bit of Providence, from Prospect Terrace. Labels: Illustrated Stubborn Grew. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The whole race is a poet. What thou lovest well. Sunk too deep for publication. Farewell to florid Rhode Island. Walk through the painting.
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HG Poetics: April 2015
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Henry Goulds poetry and poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.com. An Ordinary Evening in Minneapolis. By James Baird (a study of Stevens' architectonic tectonics). Stevens himself, unsurprisingly, encapsulated my problem for me. As he put it in one of his Adagia. The exterior world what it will. This is the "modern" ( Cogito ergo sum). But my own mind and imagination have always seemed to trend in a counter-direction. Stevens' imaginative "dome" is like the under-layer or the photo-negative of the f...
