Dovetailed: More Sentances On Renga Alec Finlay
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Dovetailed: more sentences on renga Alec Finlay
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hinge - woven dew drops / precise spider, dovetail - the precise spider/ weaves dew drops.
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A renga is not made from individual haiku.
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A renga can compose a word-map, but first you neod to prepare a schema of themes that reflects the characteristics of a place.
When you think your new verse is complete try swopping the order of lines around. Always listen to the last line of the previous verse and how your verse may flow-on.
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Flow-on verses can be a delight, where a thought or image is continued across two people.
The discipline of renga is link and shift: this defines shared consciousness.
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A good verse has its time and place: or, it's never the best verse as the best verse that is selected; it is always the best verse for a particular link.
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There is nothing that will improve your skills in composing renga verses so much as mastering.
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At a shared renga day the master should listen to the verses read on their own once, but listen to the links over and over again.
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In a group renga there will be occasions when 2 or 3 verses link equally well.
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Consider how open a link will be as a place to continue from.
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Meaning in renga is not contained within discrete veir.nn sense can shift between any line of a five line unit. Don't think: person A's verse means A, person B's verse means B. The ABC of a renga is not contained within discrete verses. The meaning of each part of a verse will always be redefined by any contiguous pad. A good renga master can see the whole picture, and help others to. Shifts of meaning may only emerge after the fact. There should be as few 'thinky' verses as possible. 132
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hinge - woven dew drops / precise spider, dovetail - the precise spider/ weaves dew drops.
*
A renga is not made from individual haiku.
*
*
A renga can compose a word-map, but first you neod to prepare a schema of themes that reflects the characteristics of a place.
When you think your new verse is complete try swopping the order of lines around. Always listen to the last line of the previous verse and how your verse may flow-on.
*
Flow-on verses can be a delight, where a thought or image is continued across two people.
The discipline of renga is link and shift: this defines shared consciousness.
*
A good verse has its time and place: or, it's never the best verse as the best verse that is selected; it is always the best verse for a particular link.
+
There is nothing that will improve your skills in composing renga verses so much as mastering.
*
At a shared renga day the master should listen to the verses read on their own once, but listen to the links over and over again.
*
In a group renga there will be occasions when 2 or 3 verses link equally well.
+
Consider how open a link will be as a place to continue from.
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•*•
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Meaning in renga is not contained within discrete veir.nn sense can shift between any line of a five line unit. Don't think: person A's verse means A, person B's verse means B. The ABC of a renga is not contained within discrete verses. The meaning of each part of a verse will always be redefined by any contiguous pad. A good renga master can see the whole picture, and help others to. Shifts of meaning may only emerge after the fact. There should be as few 'thinky' verses as possible. 132
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