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Daily Notes on Poetry & Related Matters

May 20: Geof Huth mentioned a stylized rendering of the letter on some magazine cover in his blog entry for yesterday, and how it made him understand himself to be a visual poet. I say he's confusing calligraphy with visual poetry. And once again I marveled at how differently I feel about visual poetry than just about everyone else in the field. I thought of jwcurry's small i, with its dot replaced by a fingerprint. It, to me, is as aesthetically different from (and superior to) the stylized I Geof wrote about as the Empire State Building is from a Wendy's hamburger. Am I the only one who feels like this?

Further thoughts: I've always had trouble with words, which may be the reason I value them as much as I do. I think my verbal brain may be relatively small, but with a relatively powerful engine. Words don't come as easily to me as they do for the verbally gifted, but when they do, my involvement with them is more intense and lasting than theirs.

Maybe my verbal engine isn't all that powerful, either; maybe I just have verbal stamina enough to clutch each significant word I use until I've gotten everything I can out of it while others immediately get a greater charge from their words than I ever do and--satisfied--release them. With my cumulative charge finally catching up, maybe.

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