Abstract

Abstract:

I’m working in a form that I created (seven-syllable segments; no punctuation; tercets until the last line; with its last segment a single syllable). I’d wanted to write about limits. But I didn’t want to just write about limitation, I wanted to live inside limitation in the work and then see how I handled it. I wanted event, not aftermath. Ann Lauterbach points out that the “convergence of subject matter with form releases content.” I found that these forms create a contentiousness in my use of syntax that forces me to diverge from my more expected trajectories of thought, and so it exposes a content with more contextual resources than I’d had access to.

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