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Tracking/Teaching: On Documentary Poetics
EP 21.
What happens when the historian thinks of herself as a writer, as a poet? Or when the poet turns historical researcher/writer? Some of the foremost documentary poets of today discuss how to combine a commitment to facts with a commitment to the imagination.
Excerpt:
The word document in English first meant to teach, from the Latin docere: to show. For me, documentary poetry has more to do with learning than teaching. . . . I [prefer] the phrase “investigative poetry,” which in literal terms means to be in the footprints, to follow the track (the Latin vestigium: path or trace).
—Allison Cobb
What happens when the historian thinks of herself as a writer, as a poet? Or when the poet turns historical researcher/writer? Some of the foremost documentary poets of today discuss how to combine a commitment to facts with a commitment to the imagination.
Excerpt:
The word document in English first meant to teach, from the Latin docere: to show. For me, documentary poetry has more to do with learning than teaching. . . . I [prefer] the phrase “investigative poetry,” which in literal terms means to be in the footprints, to follow the track (the Latin vestigium: path or trace).
—Allison Cobb
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81 pages, ebook
First published April 16, 2015
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January 20, 2025
Interesting look at documentary poetry. The first two interviews were very compelling, but the formatting on the last made it impossible to read and the conversation seemed to be lacking in comparison to the other two.
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