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Visit our all new poetry website www.bayeuxpoetry.com
Judith Hall & David Lehman
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COMING OUT IN APRIL 2007 |
The "pl’em" – or "play poem" – consists of dialogue, speech, and soliloquy. The pl’em is to poetry what the graphic novel is to fiction. Text and images are equally essential. A pl’em may be read, as a poem is read, but it may also be performed. The authors combined the solitary reverie of reading with the stimulus of spectacle. They found that the act of collaboration, by electronic mail between Los Angeles where Hall lives and New York where Lehman lives, galvanized them; so did the imagery that Hall masterminded.
Poetry Forum is about what happens on the way to a poetry forum. It replaces the typically dry proceedings of a public interview. Poetry Forum raises important questions on poetry, writing, solitude, and the cult of personality. The questions are irreverently explored and finally uncompromisingly unanswered.
Poetry Forum is about what happens on the way to a poetry forum. It replaces the typically dry proceedings of a public interview. Poetry Forum raises important questions on poetry, writing, solitude, and the cult of personality. The questions are irreverently explored and finally uncompromisingly unanswered.
"[Poetry Forum: A Pl’em] is a play because it is a thing [the writers] do not see…it is something that is inside of [them] …but it is a thing somebody else can see that is what makes it a play to me." – Gertrude Stein
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