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Tag Archives: modernism
Generation Gap
You call yourselves Creatives, seekers of some brave new world where the light of tomorrow shines and everyone is free, constructing some great paradigm connecting one and all across the universe and time through some technology. You call yourselves Inventors, … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, gratitude, invention, marketing, modernism, reform, technology
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Imago: a decastich
Show, don’t tell, the modern critics rave! Let solely image drive the poet’s art; so that this generation weaned and fed on television’s drivel won’t complain. Describe in such a universal way that anyone with half a brain could find, … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, decastich, imagists, irony, modernism, pessimism, poetic forms, poetry
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jazzum backclash
bitwing bedbug housefly arcnet kurt’s looseleaf tea rolled convenient hard times coming four and more ‘s miles and coleman, hat stove in screen door strained looking for peaches can’t, recall, died in the poorhouse out-of-come forsooth and spittle mood john … Continue reading
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Tagged bebop, Charlie Parker, extravagance, Free Jazz, improvisation, jazz, modernism
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