Liberating Poetic Chaos
W.B. Yeats once dismissed the work of a ‘minor poet’ with the words, ‘he lacks chaos’. Although Yeats did not precisely define what he meant by ‘chaos’, it seems clear that he sought to combine in the term something like the position, attitude and visionary striving from which arises the distinctive voice that informs and defines a poet’s characteristic expression — and which constitutes their occult genius. ‘Liberating Poetic Chaos’ is a course designed to enable poets to identify, explore and write from their own particular ‘chaos’ including consideration of parallel or related concepts, including voice, viveza, mala leche, gnosis, vision, ‘thorn-in-the-flesh’, muse, duende and inspiration.
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