Thank you for these questions, they, like Edson's poems, leave me lost with a sense I'm in the right direction so don't panic. I do like the notion that the unconscious, I'll use "sings," instead of "springs" as I don't believe theres's only a single starting point, "from the dream mind, the unconscious." And that "poetry is never comfortable in language because the unconscious doesn’t know how to speak." (speak as in the way we do at the grocers). I like that we are using tools that are not working the way we thought but are the best we have to do the job and so we end up doing another job, or the job somehow gets done when it does, which it rarely does.
Thank you for these questions, they, like Edson's poems, leave me lost with a sense I'm in the right direction so don't panic. I do like the notion that the unconscious, I'll use "sings," instead of "springs" as I don't believe theres's only a single starting point, "from the dream mind, the unconscious." And that "poetry is never comfortable in language because the unconscious doesn’t know how to speak." (speak as in the way we do at the grocers). I like that we are using tools that are not working the way we thought but are the best we have to do the job and so we end up doing another job, or the job somehow gets done when it does, which it rarely does.
The world does not make sense, and therefore poems don't have to either.
And even if it did, poems don’t have to