I've finally decided on the structure for my chapbook. It's going to be 3 thematic sequences of poems, with intermissions between, all featuring variations of the same voice, so that the poems comment on each other and transform as they go on, with special emphasis on a consistent "I" voice that might be the narrator.
The first two are already done--"A String of Mutilations" and "Ice Sculptures and a World of Glass." Most of the poems for them are already on here, but rearranged thematically for coherence.
I ended up dropping the idea of the narrative poem, but I think these are going to be set up in terms of a whole, so that the poems stand best together.
There is certainly a narrative element to these.
ReplyDeleteN doesn't have to be linear. The poems here are
stunningly vivid, and the metaphors and pure flights of imagination work at multiple levels.