Petrarch helped me to create a habit of reading poetry on a daily basis. The Canzoniere is not specifically meant to be read one poem per day over a year, however, some readers do approach it that way as a personal reading project, given the collection's 366 poems-sonnets, songs, sestinas, ballads, and madrigals. Since it has one poem for each day of a leap year, it can lend itself well to a daily reading format. This slow and reflective approach allows readers to deeply engage with Petrarch’s themes of love, time, and human frailty.
Oh, how fascinating! I have only really thought of Petrarch (up until now) when learning about the form of the Petrarchan sonnet. Do you have an English translation to recommend? I wish I could read it in the original. I so appreciate the world you open to me.
I'm obsessed with you. This sort of video-as-synthesis emphasizes the happenstance connections and disjunctions between the things you read at a given time, and I massively appreciate your love of poetry, your appreciation of close reading as a great act. Your videos refresh me. When it comes to prose poetry, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Charles Simic (especially The World Doesn't End) and James Tate.
Ah, gosh, thank you very much, that is very encouraging and I very much appreciate your recommendation of Simic and Tate. I look forward to reading them. Are they particular favourites of yours? I see there is a recent book "The Essential James Tate" (with an intro by Terrance Hayes) ... do you recommend that one? I'm so DELIGHTED to delve further into these two poets. Many thanks.
@theonlyrealproperty2567 ofc! Simic and Tate are two poets I really love, simply because they are humanistic, cynical, and willing to play with the surreal to bring about revelations of the ordinary. Also, I find them to be comic in a manner that is way too underappreciated in contemporary poetry. For Tate, I'd start with Worshipful Company of Fletchers or The Lost Pilot (you may be able to find the latter on the Internet Archive, since it's long been, I'm pretty sure, out of print, sadly).
Interesting hearing your thoughts on prose poetry (& the pickle of definitions). I often read & review prose poetry, but for some reason, have never had a go at writing it (I wonder why). In Australia there's a very active prose poetry community centred around Canberra (& specifically at Canberra Uni & Recent Work Press). They are producing really good work.
Phillip, thanks so much. I hope that you and Billy Blue are well. I'll look into Recent Work Press, any recommendations? As for writing prose poetry, I suppose that it's quite a different mindset. Even for reading it, I feel like I have to be in a specific mood otherwise I miss the line breaks too much hehe.
I am equally as fascinated with, as you said, time being different in a poem than in prose. This feels very exciting and I think until now the tools that create that have seemed invisible to me - that I could feel distinctly when the poem is warping my sense of time, but couldn’t put my finger on how it’s being done.
I'm new to thie genre of Prose Poetry. Is the difference between prose and prose poetry simply that the writer declares it to be poetry? I 've read a lot of modern poetry which is just prose but with the sentences broken-up in a weird way and called poetry. There is so much available scope in poetry and also in prose that I don't see why we need to invent new categories where we write prose but pretend it 's poetry or poetry but pretend it's prose. Help!
Thanks for your comment, and I assure you that your thoughts and frustrations are shared with many (perhaps even all?) poetry readers. Unfortunately, I don't have any definitive answers, only this video in which I try to at least come to some understanding of the complex goals and techniques of poets. I have no qualifications other than immense curiosity and enthusiasm. Warm regards from my House of Possibility to yours.
Now I feel compelled to explore the world of prose poetry.
I'm so pleased. Feel free to return here later with more comments if you have any recommendations / favourites you discover.
@@theonlyrealproperty2567 Wiil do, thank you for the invite and inspiration.
Petrarch helped me to create a habit of reading poetry on a daily basis. The Canzoniere is not specifically meant to be read one poem per day over a year, however, some readers do approach it that way as a personal reading project, given the collection's 366 poems-sonnets, songs, sestinas, ballads, and madrigals. Since it has one poem for each day of a leap year, it can lend itself well to a daily reading format. This slow and reflective approach allows readers to deeply engage with Petrarch’s themes of love, time, and human frailty.
Oh, how fascinating! I have only really thought of Petrarch (up until now) when learning about the form of the Petrarchan sonnet. Do you have an English translation to recommend? I wish I could read it in the original. I so appreciate the world you open to me.
I'm obsessed with you. This sort of video-as-synthesis emphasizes the happenstance connections and disjunctions between the things you read at a given time, and I massively appreciate your love of poetry, your appreciation of close reading as a great act. Your videos refresh me. When it comes to prose poetry, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Charles Simic (especially The World Doesn't End) and James Tate.
Ah, gosh, thank you very much, that is very encouraging and I very much appreciate your recommendation of Simic and Tate. I look forward to reading them. Are they particular favourites of yours? I see there is a recent book "The Essential James Tate" (with an intro by Terrance Hayes) ... do you recommend that one? I'm so DELIGHTED to delve further into these two poets. Many thanks.
@theonlyrealproperty2567 ofc! Simic and Tate are two poets I really love, simply because they are humanistic, cynical, and willing to play with the surreal to bring about revelations of the ordinary. Also, I find them to be comic in a manner that is way too underappreciated in contemporary poetry. For Tate, I'd start with Worshipful Company of Fletchers or The Lost Pilot (you may be able to find the latter on the Internet Archive, since it's long been, I'm pretty sure, out of print, sadly).
Interesting hearing your thoughts on prose poetry (& the pickle of definitions). I often read & review prose poetry, but for some reason, have never had a go at writing it (I wonder why). In Australia there's a very active prose poetry community centred around Canberra (& specifically at Canberra Uni & Recent Work Press). They are producing really good work.
Phillip, thanks so much. I hope that you and Billy Blue are well. I'll look into Recent Work Press, any recommendations? As for writing prose poetry, I suppose that it's quite a different mindset. Even for reading it, I feel like I have to be in a specific mood otherwise I miss the line breaks too much hehe.
@@theonlyrealproperty2567: I really enjoy Stephanie Green’s work.
I am equally as fascinated with, as you said, time being different in a poem than in prose. This feels very exciting and I think until now the tools that create that have seemed invisible to me - that I could feel distinctly when the poem is warping my sense of time, but couldn’t put my finger on how it’s being done.
I know, right??!!! I hope you and Ohad are well, it's so lovely to read your comment here. Warm regards, Eleanor.
To combine prose poetry with the French language, try Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. He is translated into English.
Thank you so much. I recently bought the new translation by Poochigian and your comment here is reminding me to return to it. Much appreciated!
Thank you. Glad to have found your channel.
Welcome!
I'm new to thie genre of Prose Poetry. Is the difference between prose and prose poetry simply that the writer declares it to be poetry? I 've read a lot of modern poetry which is just prose but with the sentences broken-up in a weird way and called poetry. There is so much available scope in poetry and also in prose that I don't see why we need to invent new categories where we write prose but pretend it 's poetry or poetry but pretend it's prose. Help!
Thanks for your comment, and I assure you that your thoughts and frustrations are shared with many (perhaps even all?) poetry readers.
Unfortunately, I don't have any definitive answers, only this video in which I try to at least come to some understanding of the complex goals and techniques of poets. I have no qualifications other than immense curiosity and enthusiasm.
Warm regards from my House of Possibility to yours.