A Sense of Doubt blog post #2178 - MAD FOLD IN POEM and TED TALK on writing poetry - Daniel Tysdale

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2178 - MAD FOLD IN POEM and TED TALK on writing poetry - Daniel Tysdale

Wednesday writing post, two days late.

I have been sitting on this one a while.

Clever poem based on Mad Magazine fold ins (a fold-in poem!!) and a very good Ted Talk on poetry writing.

We have the book, but the initial print run was low and so there are few copies left and those that remain are $$$$$$$$$$$.

Enjoy and keep writing!!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/144841/a-mad-fold-in-poem

A MAD Fold-In Poem

BY DANIEL SCOTT TYSDAL

A ▶                                                                                                          ◀ B

You — this mucky fire slathered in my mind’s frame

 — are as committed to me as artists are to art. At times,

your voice is constant — “kill yourself, kill yourself, kill

yourself” — fists punching clay with the aim to make me

nothing more than punched clay. Other times, you’re

a cinema in my skull, screening me mangled: one leg

  auger-mauled, hand vice-crushed, eye pencil-blinded to life

 — “end it,” you say, in the scene you loop: this cinema’s walls

with a bullet burst. At parties, you shape a sinister play from

others’ glances: “hate him,” “idiot,” “fool.” When I bloom,

 a sun, all alight and rising, you flatten my lift into lines

on a page like Jaffee’s in the back of MAD; you fold it

over and now the rise is the wound from a wing cleaved

   and then gilded, the bloom’s a thousand-foot fall, the sun

a drain. Yet with each step the unrelenting chorus of you

circles round me, another chorus surfaces to surround you: the

  line of sheltering trees artists grow, loamy and ablaze, against

  your gale, the melodies of friends whose works asphyxiate your

symphony, the lessons students teach about tipping your

plinths, the magic of  bringing nib to page and penning life

with urgency and patience, word by word, with abandon

 and care. Even though I know it can never silence you, I love

this inky trick because it fills the blank before you can, marks

up your script, swallows you choking in a page-mutating

fold, so your cruel barks, garbled, almost seem to say:

A ▶                                                                                                          ◀ B

   

Click here to fold back so A meets B

https://www.danielscotttysdal.com/

Everything you need to write a poem (and how it can save a life) 

| Daniel Tysdal | TEDxUTSC

602,798 views•Apr 24, 2015

You're a poet and Daniel Tysdal is about to show it. Daniel will walk you through his writing process to showcase the Power of Poetry to help us remember, grieve and celebrate. 

Daniel Tysdal has been a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at UTSC since 2009. He is the author of three books of poetry and the poetry textbook, The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems (Oxford University Press 2014). He is the recipient of multiple awards for his work and his research interests include creative writing and poetry.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

The MAD Fold-In Collection

•Aug 5, 2011

Chronicle Books

24.3K subscribers

Purchase at: https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/the-mad-fold-in-collection-gift-pack?_pos=1&_sid=410fa914a&_ss=r

Al Jaffee's fold-ins, on the inside back cover of virtually every issue of MAD Magazine since 1964, have become an icon of American humor. Generations have grown up with Jaffee's inspired skewerings of our foibles and cultural conundrums. Issue after issue, each Fold-in requires the reader to simply fold the page so that arrow A meets arrow B to reveal the hidden gag image, a simple idea that masks both undeniable artistic ingenuity and comic timing. In this deluxe four-volume set, each of the 410 fold-ins is reproduced at its original size, with a digital representation of the corresponding "folded" image on the following page (so collectors won't have to "fold" their book to get the jokes). Featuring insightful essays by such luminaries as Pixar's Pete Docter and humorist Jules Feiffer, The MAD Fold-In Collection is the definitive gift for the millions of fans who've grown up with MAD for nearly 60 years.

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