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concordant opposition
I've been meaning for a while now to reveal Concordant Opposition, a collaborative project that I've been working on with poet Eric Burger, which currently takes the form of a poem in six parts.
We gave ourselves a month to write each section, so the six sections reflect a collaboration that ran from May to October. We took turns adding words to the poem, and the number of words we'd add on a given turn was constrained by the number of the section—in May, writing the first section, we each added only one word each turn, but in October, writing the sixth section, we each added six words with every new turn. The number of turns taken during a month was governed by the number of days in that month: in a thirty-dayer like September we took thirty turns, fifteen each. Theoretically we each went once every other day, although conditions almost always conspired (as they do) to keep it from playing out that way. In any case, we made it through the six months, and I'm pretty happy with the result, which gets increasingly giddy and unhinged as it proceeds.
Concordant Opposition is currently entering its second phase, another six-month-long project with a wholly different set of constraints. More on that later. Labels: writing |
Thursday, December 02, 2004
1:49 PM
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