Literary Paradigm Shift at a Glance (with props to Matthew Fox)
1. Modern Era Postmodern and beyond
2. New Formalism/Free Verse Organic
3. Grants/awards/book sales (outside validation) Joy in Process (anything else, icing)
4. Revision PREvision (& scrupulous attention to the moment)
5. Short separate poems Lifetime perfecting a Serial poem (The Holy Forest, Mu, etc.)
6. Poet as author Poet as gift recipient
7. Poet brain Non-local mind
8. Theory Experience first, theory afterward (Theory as Cosmology)
9. Determined form/subject/method Form as revelation of content
10. Writer’s block Incubation period
11. Universe as Machine Universe as Organism
12. Concern for accessibility Courage in trusting ear’s non-logical leaps
13. Anthropocentric Noospheric
14. Logical/Linear/Clever/Ironic Mythic
15. Eliot Olson
16. Poet as Embalmer Poet as Time Mechanic
17. Patriarchal, Hierarchical, Separate Interconnected
18. Pursuit of Knowledge Pursuit of Negative Capability
19. Competition/Domination Partnership
20. Art of networking/positioning/self-promotion vs. Fully absorbed in refining the gesture, amigos emerge
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The universe is made of Thing
Universe is made of Occasions of Experience