Poeta Doctus

Dispatches from the Poetry Wars has shared a lively back and forth between, mainly, Barrett Watten and Nathaniel Mackey, which, in turn, inspired some lively on-line discussion that turned, in part, around ‘myth’. Interested parties are encouraged to investigate the Dispatches site further for much related matter.

Before I sit down to work through Hans Blumenberg’s Work on Myth, I append the short poem below from Ladonian Magnitudes as a humble contribution to the communal deliberation!

Decay Pattern

When on earth

was myth a mouth

every head muttered

or is noys or

babble first what

articulate tongues

propagated on air

to ear empty

of echo of

familiar sound