CLASH and Unleash

So I’m going to roll with the idea that I pick up from the reading of “Attack of the Difficult Poems,” by Charles Bernstein. Or should I say ‘ideas’. The author really works out the love/ hate relationship between the originality and innovation. There may seem to be a border between these two words sometimes the wall between is invisible, other times it seems miles apart.

Originality- old, refinement, past

Innovation- new, disruptive, now

The clash quotes that help me come up with my idea.

p.34 “the new replaces the old or that the new is better than the old.”

“Poetic innovation is not necessarily related to improvement; at it most engaged, it is a means of keeping up with the present, grappling with the contemporary. We have to constantly reinvent out forms and vocabularies so that we don’t lose touch with ourselves and the world we live in. the need for changing art is prompted by changes in the social and economic environment.”

p. 35 “it is the frustration with existing things that produces innovation.”

“Everything is subject to change overtime.”

“The sense of perceived failure creates a space for the new in the sense of the now.”

The quote that really got me thinking.

“My first object (as usual) was originality.”

            Taking this away from the poetic sense and letting it explode in the sense of writing in general, my writing, you’re writing, and the things we read or wouldn’t dare to read. First, why do we write when most ideas and words have already been written? Can my writing or my new idea be the first or is it an innovation of that I have already read? Can it be original? Those questions are always in the back of my head when writing.

            But looking at this quote, “my first object (as usual) was originality,” the first short story, the first poem, the first book, as usual is the original to me, and that in the end is the thing that matters the most. If you believe it, others will too. It is all in the perspective. It was and will always be first. But like I said in my first post i.e. was originality. It will become the innovation of that idea. Rewrite. Rewrite. Rewrite. Creating something new from the old and taking the original idea and save it, never throw away anything, they are all a part of you. It gives you a chance of relooking at it and bringing them back into the new. Innovation can’t take place without originality.

            Writing is ever growing and mirrors our changes and our past. What make you- you. Or the author- the author is your past and your now. We are always changing however we cannot change the past. We can look back and remember, and change ourselves now. But remember your first anything is special, it is a start and may get better or worst but we must work on it. Write, rewrite, write, and find ourselves in the chaos of change and assimilation.