In a world encouraging innovation Tom Fallon presents literature as it grew from the great art revolution of the early 20th Century with a primer of his experiments and innovations with literary form in Creation Now With Words. Fallon presents his many experiments with literary form as he was affected by the art revolution, modern jazz, experimental classical music, Off-Off Broadway theater in NYC and modern American writers such as Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Dick Higgins, Bern Porter and others. With quotations from Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and other visual artists of the art revolution Creation Now With Words encourages the freedom of the creative individual to explore and innovate with literary form as their individuality demands. The book ends with references for exploration.
Foreword
CREATION NOW WITH WORDS is a primer for encouraging independent thought and research relative to literary, word, form, based on the creative revolution in the arts which took place during the early 20th Century.
Nothing is permanent. Heraclitus
There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
Those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. Where the power house of all time and space - call it brain or heart of creation - activates every function; who is the artist who would not dwell there?
Paul Klee
What I write, as I have said before, could only be called poetry because there is no other category in which to put it.
Marianne Moore
I encourage a writer to create, experiment and invent, to fail and succeed, with literary, word, form, to embrace the freedom which exists in each person's unique created individuality.
Yes, there are other serious considerations for a writer such as integrity of language, communication, life truth, which I will not relate here. These must not be forgotten -
Tom Fallon
Fallon, Tom: - Tom Fallon subtitled his first book "Selected Poems, Half-poems and Non-Poems" in 1978 clearly establishing his direction for exploring poetry and literary form rather than following inherited forms. How to write, has been his primary question, opening up his mind to creation. Fallon's subsequent works, "Pregnant Man 1" in Red Dust 3, The Man on the Moon, and NOW, subtitled "Poetry and Antipoetry," continued his experiment and innovation with form to the point that he posited a new literary term, charteng, after discovering Marianne Moore's statement in an interview with Donald Hall for the Paris Review, "What I write, as I have said before, is only called poetry because there is no other category in which to put it." This term relates to the new categories in the arts such as collage, environments, etc. His writing has been affected by the art revolution of the early 20th Century, modern jazz, experimental classical music, Off-Off Broadway theater in NYC and modern American writers such as Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Dick Higgins, Bern Porter and others.
