26261 Allen reviews some of the "homemade" poetic sayings which became "Mind Writing Slogans". These very practical and concrete poetic techniques sum up a century and a half of literary consciousness and became the foundation of AG's idea of writing as a spiritual discipline. Around 25 minutes, he loses the slogan outline and discusses Haiku and Reznikoff but comes back with some solid insights near the end. 0:00-9:00 Summarizes first two workshops on direct perception (is this part 3 then??). - No ideas but in things, facts. -WC Williams. - Direct perception of the object- Pound - Natural object is always the adequate symbol. - Things are symbols of themselves- C. Trungpa - See the world in a grain of sand... - Blake - Pay Attention to minute Particulars - Blake - Details are the life of Prose - Kerouac - Emotion recollected in Tranquility 9:00-24:21 Criteria for what to write down: Vividness "I remember" Joe Brainard Value of discipline of this grounding to "things that you perceive, you see [as opposed to feelings]" - Keep your mind clamped down on objects, close to the nose - Bring the muse into the kitchen- Whitman Thinking in terms of rhythm, assonance Mindtricks and subtleties of writing Pitch and the Dying Fall 25:00-32:50: Reads Student Work 33:00-46:30: Blyth's Haikus (his, Snyder and K's 'perception bible'), reads and discusses 46:30: Reznikoff discussion of direct perceptions and "mental guts" 54:54: Paydirt of poetry=vivid but rejected observations. 55:50: Using direct perceptions to move on to narrative poetry (a la Reznikoff) 1:10:40: David Cope 1:18:00: Materialism (Ginsberg) vs. Surrealism (Lamantia) -What oft was thought but so rarely expressed 1:20:15: Mental Selectiveness: "regathering elements of the experience" 1:23: Noticing what you notice 1:29: If mind is shapely, art is shapely -Every third thought shall be my grave Proto-Mind Writing Slogans Class Blank 2004-12-03 09:19:38 2004-12-03 09:08:38 5 1 5.00