THIS BLOG WORKS THROUGH AN IDEA,
A PROCESS & A KIND OF AESTHETIC.
THIS INTERESTS ME MORE THAN
A POLISHED AESTHETIC IN FORM.
OR AN IDEA ALONE. OR A PROCESS
THAT IS INTERESTED ONLY IN LANGUAGE.
THE AESTHETIC COULD BE REWORKED
TO CONCEAL THE PROCESS, TO HIDE THE IDEA
BEHIND A WORK THAT APPEARS COMPLETED

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Coirí Filíochta said…
Idea works through this blog
process, in a kind aesthetic
which interests us more than
a polished aesthetic form
or the processed idea alone
interested only in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
reworked in the aesthetic
concealing a PROCESS, hidden
idea behind the fully completed I.


The core text in verse foclo first yr, level one of six it will take you six years to swim through before publically announcing one as I and it is here, make it the centre of yr practice and in seven years, you will be one of the finest poets practicing in England.


print it off, just read it, the poem itself and think about it, as really McCabe, this is it, if one is honest, and doesn't let the cheerleaders sway our thinking that some boring straight faced bloke sneering it is coz of a river called styx and eliot being their main ghost they are on bummie terms wiv, as mental buds of an up yrs fcUK poetic, traditionally, so peer into the only stable text there is, see how...strange it is, then read all of yeats, prose and verse, attack the Vision and never again will any living po-mo dabbler fox us...and the Foster tomes, 2000 pages, crack yeatsie, then the four cycles of irish myth, a skeleton of 250 tales, lady gregories book, get that for a fiver, start in secret to take it on and in seven years, Armitage and all the effers, only one king Liam, the rest are manques, so think on and take advice from a knowing lancastrian fitzgerald, one quarter munster 3 mayo..love and peace McCabe, gra agus siochainn, ormskirk rules..

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