All language is driven by pattern. Much of poetry is the labor, as Adam Wolfond writes, of moving language from patter to pattern. Sometimes those patterns are visual (a shaping), sometimes mathematical (a counting), sometimes lyrical (a chanting), and sometimes a poem desires to inhabit all of these patterns simultaneously, shaping and counting and chanting their way toward the reader.
currents / recurrence
currents / recurrence
currents / recurrence
All language is driven by pattern. Much of poetry is the labor, as Adam Wolfond writes, of moving language from patter to pattern. Sometimes those patterns are visual (a shaping), sometimes mathematical (a counting), sometimes lyrical (a chanting), and sometimes a poem desires to inhabit all of these patterns simultaneously, shaping and counting and chanting their way toward the reader.