Mike Snider's Formal Blog and Sonnetarium<br>Poems, mostly metrical, and rants and raves on poetry and the po-biz.Going Slow, but Going, Going, Gone- January 25, 2006 Thanks to this post from the Fool in the Forest, I've discovered the Holy Tango of Literature. And that's about all I've discovered beyond how frightfully bad the html I wrote 8 years ago can be, and that comments to one copy of this blog show up on both as long as the post number is the same. That last is pretty neat, but this moving domains thing is almost as much work as moving in the meat world. I'm ready for it be over—and I'm shooting for my birthday next month. Wish me luck,...http://www.mikesnider.org/formalblog/2006/01/24.html#a632 Big Yipes- January 22, 2006 Update: I may not be able to post to both sites. Some computer geek me. Since the last post there listed this URL, and I'm moving here sooner or later, I'm going to make it today. The other sites at the new domain will just have to catch up. Like they'll do it on their own … I don't have time for this!http://www.mikesnider.org/formalblog/2006/01/22.html#a631 Moving House- January 22, 2006 This will be the new Sonnetarium. Some weirdness will probably be permanent—permalinks for old posts will point to the old domain, for instance. That shouldn't be a huge problem, since that site will stay online until at least October: it's already paid for. For a while I'll be posting to both sites, usually identical posts unless they're site-specific info like this one.http://www.mikesnider.org/formalblog/2006/01/22.html#a628 That Reminds Me of a Story … (again)- January 22, 2006 I screwed up somehow, and lost yesterday's post while trying to configure a potential new home for this blog, so I'm reposting it. There were no trackbacks I'm aware of, so there should be no need to change links—at least until I get the new domain working right. Just a quick note on some long and thoughtful posts from Josh Corey (all over January) and Kasey Mohammad (here and here). Kasey's quite right that "lyric" and "narrative" are not in opposition to each other, but the reason.http://radio.weblogs.com/0113501/2006/01/22.html#a626 Good Stuff from Jonathan—Vagaries from Me- January 21, 2006 Jonathan Mayhew has been making some smart remarks about translation lately, and his latest is a set of firmly tongue-in-cheek (or maybe tongue-stuck-out-and-wriggling) rules for translating poetry. I'd like to add to it: Whatever the poem's prosodic structure, be sure you don't use it. If it's metrical, make it free verse, and, if it's free verse, make it metrical. If you simply must use meter to translate a metrical poem, make sure it's wildly different in its usual...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113501/2006/01/20.html#a625 Here, Kitty!- January 19, 2006 I've finally realized that even the 20" screen on my iMac isn't big enough for me to see how poems should be grouped for submission, so I've fired up Pages for the first time, used it to make a submission template, and printed 54 poems all properly formatted so I can see the things and not just hear them in my head. I firmly believe this is not cat-vacuuming (scroll to section 3.17) and Will Lead to Publications. Another kind of not-cat-vacuuming I do is reformat poems, much as I rewrote...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113501/2006/01/18.html#a624 Ottava Murder- January 16, 2006 I mentioned I was also making an ottava rima version of my novel-in-verse. Here's a snippet, part of the same scene I posted in terza rima: Rachel was showing Hank her new tattoo: Emerald-scaled, diamond-clawed, and ruby-eyed, A coiling dragon spitting flame into Her hair, its sapphire bat wings stretching wide Across her shoulders, ointment spread where new Gold gleamed from the crack of her ass. "You satisfied" "You kidding That day's the day I'm dead. Come shake it with me." She...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113501/2006/01/16.html#a623 Mirror, Mirror …- January 14, 2006 In a "hmmm, that's pretty cool" sort of way I've been aware of mirror neurons for a few years. I think I first read about them at The Edge), and I briefly wrote here about reading and brain activation based on articles (here and here) that didn't use the term "mirror neuron" but which in hindsight seem to involve them. But last week an article in The New York Times really caught my attention. It seems that mirror neuron systems in people are amazingly sophisticated, responding to a huge...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113501/2006/01/14.html#a622 Housekeeping- January 12, 2006 Two new links on the left: Jeff Newberry's Muse of Fire, which I thought I'd added months ago, and a new poetry book blog from HarperCollins, CruelestMonth.com.http://radio.weblogs.com/0113501/2006/01/11.html#a621 Terza Murder- January 12, 2006 About a year ago I started thinking about a novel-in-verse, a murder mysteryghost storyurban fantasysatire, written in terza rima (or maybe ottava rima). I posted my plea to the muse. I tried writing straight to verse and it didn't work, so I've done some outlining, some character sketches, an some prose drafts, and this last month I've actually done some work on the versification. Here's about half of the first draft of the first scene: Rachel was showing Hank her brand new tat...http://radio.weblogs.com/0113501/2006/01/11.html#a620 |