Poetry of the Revolution : Responses to the Avant-Garde: 11/9

MacLow seems to want to delve deeper into the notion that all poetry should be created to give either the writer or the reader pleasure. This pleasure and the way it is created challenges the ability of poetry to do this because in essence, one man's pain is another's pleasure. The methods he used all pertained to aspects of Zen Buddhism. Basically, he wanted poetry that was grounded in "the real world" as opposed to "the perceived world." Perception, sensation, impulse, emotion, and thought were all seen by MacLow as inhibitors to the ability to experience reality as it is outside of human thought processes. In a way, his writing is an attempt at transcendent thinking which he viewed as largely unattainable unless an individual is able to escape their ego. His methods had a concise purpose rooted toward overcoming egoistic misconceptions about the nature of reality and the mind. He viewed his goal as making "poetry of the world."