Lumpy pudding

Judging a poem is like judging a pudding or a machine. One demands that it work. Poetry succeeds because all or most of what is said or implied is relevant; what is irrelevant has been excluded, like lumps from pudding and 'bugs' from machinery. (Wimsatt & Beardsley)

Here we celebrate the excluded, lumpy parts of the pudding!

Jan 13, 2012 4:43pm

Recent acquisition - Charles Olson’s first ‘collection’, consisting on only 5 poems, w. illustrations by Corrado Cagli. Published by Black Sun Press, 1950

From La Préface:

“Birth in the house is the One of Sticks, cunnus in the crotch.”