7 THESES ON POETRY

1. For a science of the beautiful to be guesswork is easy on the eyes. I.E.: by means of proofs or educated guesses towards something-or-other.

2. Considered beautiful or not considered beautiful or not. Would, if belonged to science, possibly be concrete and intimidating.

3. Be beautiful, is a nonentity I'm sure I think is there. We were to ask for reasons now were to take them to task.

4. Put off with elegant phrases and embrace well-done commercial language. To the current expression elegant and to the timeless saying beauty.

5. Learning, &c. and more and more slogans. Owing to the fact that they form a superstructure of legend.

6. Preparation and groundwork is done but is weak. Are taken to compromise the lack of enemies constituting the apparatus.

7. (Rhetoric and poetry) have that extraneous quality of nonbeing. Actually got the name down this time.



(ASIDE)

Pictorialists from the epoch of realism epoch of.

Within photography was originality inferior to painting.

Pictorialism a failure.

To divorce itself they shook hands.
Such attack compares to a truce.
Detail and lose what.
Meaning and intention meandering.
Hard objects to blow up.
Have turned its.
But in emulating everything obviously.
Inadvertently set their figures.
Form of sentimentalism ghosts.
Of an inward capacity.
Is the capacity reiterated.
Not because those.
But because they.
The very repetition.




Matt Turner is a graduate of Brown University's English and Creative Writing Program. He has been published in Fence and Ur-Vox, has shown work at the Chela Gallery and the Woods-Gerry Gallery, and has work forthcoming in Antennae. "7 Theses on Poetry" and "(Aside)" are both from his manuscript Poems of Value/ For the Authentic.


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