J. H. Prynne

[luka]

you just reminded me i was going to copy out some cool stuff from his concepts and conception in poetry essay.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Cool, do it.

I have to do everything on dissensus by smartphone, so longer posts take me ages, and I can think much better when I'm writing with an actual pencil in my hand.

 

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'I wanted to know why Prynne had come up with this theory. Did he have an imaginary friend himself when small? Does inspiration feel like dialectic for him? I did ask, in the Q&A session at the end, and Prynne gracefully declined my question (twice) and said something else interesting instead. Fair enough. Pocket-sized copies of Pearls That Were were on sale. I asked him to sign mine and got a dedication in the most beautiful black-ink italic script: “This book is for Fiona, who knows how to ask a difficult question”. I chose to take this as charming, rather than patronising.'

 

[luka]

i don't think i've managed to find that essay yet. i think it's called the poet's imaginary.

 

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That quote's from someone's blog,

J H Prynne on poetic inspiration

J H Prynne gave a lecture at Sussex University last week. I went along with friends who live in Lewes. Two of us walked there over ...

displacement-poetry.blogspot.com

 

[luka]

If you read his essay the poets imaginary he spells it out but it's implicit in the work and it's a sense shared by any halfway serious poet

or maybe i have read it. who knows.

 

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I came across a five star review of Poems which was just the following line,

"The path clears / by the use it gets."

 

[Benny Bunter]

That lecture on "mental ears" that on YouTube is brilliant, had a listen the other day.
The forensic analysis he does on just two or three words in that Wordsworth poem seems totally mad at first, but by the end you're totally convinced he's onto some next-level literary criticism shit that'll take everyone else light years to catch up with.

 

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He's got another new one now,

"At Raucous Purposeful is a text-sequence in ten parallel prose exploits by the one and only J. H. Prynne. An intriguing work of fascinating association and diversion with nervous danger potential alongside the absurd enduring whole."

 

[Benny Bunter]

I liked the bit in the mental ears lecture when he says (paraphrasing) "my critics often accuse me of writing poetry that doesn't make any sense and means nothing...and I'd totally agree with them."

 

[luka]

He's got another new one now,

"At Raucous Purposeful is a text-sequence in ten parallel prose exploits by the one and only J. H. Prynne. An intriguing work of fascinating association and diversion with nervous danger potential alongside the absurd enduring whole."

and another 250 poem sequence coming hot on the heels of that. Jim's on some publisher's mailing list and got the heads up.

 

[Benny Bunter]

He's got another new one now,

"At Raucous Purposeful is a text-sequence in ten parallel prose exploits by the one and only J. H. Prynne. An intriguing work of fascinating association and diversion with nervous danger potential alongside the absurd enduring whole."

Some extracts from it in this tweet

 

[Benny Bunter]

And apparently TWO volumes of the collected essays are in the works.

 

[luka]

looks pretty silly

 

[luka]

Cantilina was a vocal melody?

(. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cantilena )

From Latin, cantus, sung apparently


https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cano#Latin

Prynne is really into this material substrate of language where you link song to

pipe, tube quotations ▼
aqueduct, duct for taking water to a mill or to a fountain, either in the surface or under it quotations ▼
Synonyms: cal, canle, quenlla, levada
(archaic) sewer quotations ▼
quill, calamus of a feather
Synonym: cálamo
corn stalk
Synonym: cana
spout
Synonyms: bico, biqueira, picho, torno
barrel (of a gun)
handle of an oar

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[woops]

calling him "the one and only" is wrong

 

[luka]

calling him "the one and only" is wrong

how many are there?

 

[woops]

well exactly it's irrelevant and makes him sound like a cabaret turn

 

[luka]

i find it very distasteful the way these young nobheads are using him to launch their 'careers' i dont know why he's going along with it really

 

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