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mesostic/acrostic/exhaustic etc. - is there a mesoway?
which reminds me of a form we used
fluXosticOn May 21, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Allan Revich wrote: 1) mesostic (non-conforming) 2) simple mesostic 3) meso-acrostic 4) Brown Mesostic 5) non-Cage mesostic 6) basic mesostic 7) ? ...suggestions?
paleoXosticOn May 25, 2006, at 4:53 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:fluXosticOn May 21, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Allan Revich wrote: 1) mesostic (non-conforming) 2) simple mesostic 3) meso-acrostic 4) Brown Mesostic 5) non-Cage mesostic 6) basic mesostic 7) ? ...suggestions?
which reminds me of a form we used to use a lot in the late 80s which we called fluxonyms. here's a bunch of them here.http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/winter_2003/miekal-collaboration/literary_magazine.htmlOn May 25, 2006, at 3:53 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:fluXosticOn May 21, 2006, at 1:55 PM,
On 2006 May 21, at 10:59 AM, Allan Revich wrote: So the issue is, what becomes of the "0% mesostic"? It is not an acrostic. It is not 50% mesostic, nor is it a 100% mesostic. I remain wont to call it a mesostic as that term seems well-suited to describe an acrostic poem with the phrase down the
On 2006 May 21, at 1:55 PM, Allan Revich wrote: The more I learn, the less I seem to know! Rod, what do you think?Hahahahaha! Well, yes, I think I may have answered this in my last post.Allan, I think that if you can come up with a unique way of constructing your poemsusing acrostics, then you
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mesostic/acrostic/exhaustic etc. - is there a mesoway?
On 2006 May 21, at 10:59 AM, Allan Revich wrote:
So the issue is,
what becomes of the &q
That would be a rhopalic verse (only one 'l')
Of text in which each word contains one more
letter or syllable than the one preceding it.
This word derives from the Greek rhopalos, for a club or
cudgel which, like most of its kind, is thicker towards one end than
the other. Though the English
Sorry, I meant to say an anti-rhopalic verse...
On 2006 May 22, at 10:29 AM, Rod Stasick wrote:
...would be a steady reduction of her first line idea to an
exhausted state - a kind of rhopallic verse or syllabic snowball,
then it would fit the name more closely.
Rod
On 2006 May 22, at 10:47 AM, Allan Revich wrote: Thanks Rod for such a thoughtful answer. I confess to remaining unconvinced that only Cage's mesostic forms can rightfully be called "mesostic", but I am certainly much better informed than I was a week ago! It is interesting to contemplate
On 2006 May 22, at 10:48 AM, Cecil Touchon wrote:
That would be a rhopalic verse (only one 'l')
Thanks Cecil. I caught that when it showed up later.
I really meant anti-rhopalic (and anti-snowball as well, I suppose).
Rod
I'd like to try to
fill a 'gap' in the labelling schema.
From what I have
been able to glean hither thither and yonder in netland Cage worked with three
variations of the acrostic form during his life.
I'll begin with the
two forms for which Cage and writers/artists/poets following his
On Behalf Of Allan
RevichSent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:59 AMTo:
FLUXLISTSubject: FLUXLIST: mesostic/acrostic/exhaustic etc. - is
there a mesoway?
I'd like to try to
fill a 'gap' in the labelling schema.
From what I have
been able to glean hither thither and yonder in netland Cage worked with thr
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