Johanna writes:

Interesting how many of the Tlingit songs gathered (I keep wanting to type "fathered") by Swanton in Rothenberg's work were composed as precursors of some conflict or upcoming engagement. I keep thinking of the word "invocation", as if sound and song revivified some preternatural host. Scary.

Wondering about the power of poems in "real" time and where the need or desire to make them originates - still today a poem might be "written" which is scary. What happens to the residual force when these "poems" are captured in books?

A song composed for a specific occasion translated and later anthologized is no longer what it once was, become as it is then a "poem" according to current understanding.

Cassie Lewis writes:

Quote of the day

(enjambment mine)

"Do the improbable and the
Universe will wonder; do the impossible and the
Universe will change."

- Nick Piombino 3/24/86
- posted by Cassie @ 7:07 AM

How might poems as well (perhaps) revivfy a "preternatural host"?

I'm reminded of Maria Sabina and have a book about and "by" her somewhere around here which I now want to go dig up.

How might poems be released (uncaptured?) from the page?

Intent is critical. "What is my intent?" is probably a good question to ask myself.