POEtry
“‘Hey,’ he said, half-asleep, ‘what were you before you met me?’ ‘I think I was drowning.’ A pause. ‘And what are you now?’ he whispered, sinking. I thought for a second. ‘Water.’” –Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
For we are where we are not
(Pierre Jean Louve)
We would mainly investigate the structure of poems—a formal synthesis of the poem and the word. From this, we focused on the ways in which poetry can become architectonic.
Modernity: A relentless search for authenticity. An ever changing opinionated mass of individuals. or not. Time consuming activities of fulfillment with no sense of its own temporarity. Shallowness under every optical surface, appearing ever more meaningful while leaking from its own hole of permanent questionability. Everything has been done before, everything is an iteration of something prior. Every thought is a footnote to a prior thought. A self imposing disrespect of tradition, but with an all consuming thirst for inspiration.