Here he is, born in Russia, part of the aristocracy. Or the personal bodyguard of the Duke of Orlean s wife, a great fencing master from Haiti upon whom the Three Musketeers are partly based. I am researching on my own, and now they are working themselves into poems. Early on in the space program there were something like 85,000 new terms created. I m interested in how this technical, scientific language plays alongside street language.
Street language is also rather inventive.
That s what some of the slam poets have been able to incorporate. But I m thinking about even technical language and the tension it can create with street language. Not necessarily where every poem is a measure of an emotion or an ad for an emotion. But they need to be about something. The poem doesn t provide answers, as I see it, the poem poses questions.