New Chapbook, SONNET, from H_NGM_N Books...
Hey, just wanted to mention that my new chapbook, SONNET, is now available from H_NGM_N Books. Please check it out.
http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-b__ks/chapbook-3-sonnet-by-matt-hart.html
Also, check out the message below from H_NGM_N's editor Nate Pritts, which announces both my chap and a new one from Erica Bernheim called BETWEEN THE ROOM AND THE CITY as well. And if that weren't already enough to make you run screaming to www.h-ngm-n.com, Nate has news about a new H_NGM_N Books series called Combatitives as well. Here's Nate:
Greetings!
Click over to H_NGM_N to find information about our two new releases,chapbooks by Matt Hart & Erica Bernheim.
http://www.h-ngm-n.com
SONNET by Matt Hart
BETWEEN THE ROOM AND THE CITY by Erica Bernheim
(Pay Pal buttons should be active soon; meantime, order a different chap then email me to tell me what you really want!)
Still fresh & good – H_NGM_N #5.
Coming soon: COMBATIVES – a bimonthly print magazine focusing on the work ofone poet per month. More info forthcoming. Attached, please find a promosheet – feel free to post it electronically or physically anywhere &everywhere.
All best—Nate Pritts
EIC, H_NGM_N.
http://www.h-ngm-n.com
Monday, August 21, 2006
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Or put another way,
"Poetry, for me, is a witnessing to magnitude. It is the art of making urgent values manifest and of imposing them on the reader. It is the housing of these values in poems, so they will exist with maximum pressure and for the longest time. It is the craft of doing so in structures that are a delight in themselves. And it is the mystery of fashioning poems in such a way that the form and content are one.
What poetry chiefly is not for me is an entertainment. I recognize that there are other ways than mine to approach poetry: that for many it is an aesthetic recreation, the making of beautiful objects; or it is the congenial play of the imagination over a subject; or it is an exercise in expertise. It is not so for me. There is a voice in me that stubbornly sings of a largeness beyond formal considerations, sings of love and death, god and evil, lust, honor, and the major business of life. I believe these can be considered with profit. I am convinced that poetry is the best way to do so. I believe that poetry does make things happen--finally. I believe poetry deals with life--with my life...."
-- Jack Gilbert from "The Landscape of American Poetry in 1964"
"Poetry, for me, is a witnessing to magnitude. It is the art of making urgent values manifest and of imposing them on the reader. It is the housing of these values in poems, so they will exist with maximum pressure and for the longest time. It is the craft of doing so in structures that are a delight in themselves. And it is the mystery of fashioning poems in such a way that the form and content are one.
What poetry chiefly is not for me is an entertainment. I recognize that there are other ways than mine to approach poetry: that for many it is an aesthetic recreation, the making of beautiful objects; or it is the congenial play of the imagination over a subject; or it is an exercise in expertise. It is not so for me. There is a voice in me that stubbornly sings of a largeness beyond formal considerations, sings of love and death, god and evil, lust, honor, and the major business of life. I believe these can be considered with profit. I am convinced that poetry is the best way to do so. I believe that poetry does make things happen--finally. I believe poetry deals with life--with my life...."
-- Jack Gilbert from "The Landscape of American Poetry in 1964"
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