Or, the problem of the black swan tool.
Black swan, signifying a statistical exception that falsifies or repudiates a dominant worldview.
Swan tool, used by recovery servicemen to 'break into' a vehicle, often to free occupants without agency (eg, a child or a pet) from imprisonment.
The poem as black swan tool attempts to engineer an exception, an egress from 'the literature' –– from the literary economy or marketplace –– yet simultaneously also attempts to break into the vehicle of literary history, or the conceit of a bounded discipline and its progress.
Where aspirant poets desire to invent, but refuse or are impatient with the poem, the tool is the poetic community, or the movement.
The problem leads frequently to defensive publication –– and the vector of poetry is away from publication.
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Where it sees and speaks, agog at the "well-formed formulas".
This is Peeping Mot.
1/ Homage to Leo Marks, WWII cryptographer, and author of the screenplay for Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960).
2/ A shorthand for this vertigo of the unfolding epigram: the experience of an aphorism as it re-engineers the world, whether cruelly, or paternally, in the model sense of the word, as a house-husband delighting the orchid in its pram.
2/ A shorthand for this vertigo of the unfolding epigram: the experience of an aphorism as it re-engineers the world, whether cruelly, or paternally, in the model sense of the word, as a house-husband delighting the orchid in its pram.
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