Paul Nelson

Organic Poetry: North American Field Poetics Paul Nelson

(from) Organic Manifesto: The Organic poem is not the record of an event, it isan event, an occasion of experience, a map of themind at work in the moment, ear measuring and mindmediating the crowd of outside voices/impulses andresonances erring on the side of entelechy for theindividual and polis and culture, in deep connectionwith dimensions larger than the pen-holder, enactingâ¿" not describing â¿" the instant rather than the act ofthought about the instant... The Organic poem is the mercy, mercy, mercy of theintersection of the vastness of outer space with thevastness of the space inside skull in completecandor, the ordinary mind in discovery of perceptionseternal in celebration of person (Universe isPerson), not a stream of consciousness, more acoherent splendor, more a field of first permissionto which one is allowed access more often than onethinks.