So interesting that you're writing about this topic now. It dovetails with my Creative Inspiration blog this week and with my experience with making both poetry and visual art. If we look too hard, too directly, or too focused, we narrow the field of discovery. I tried to address this in my poem "What is Found in Found Poetry" that arrived from the periphery. The periphery is where the surprises lay in wait. Thank you for the moth migration analogy--I love that image!
So interesting that you're writing about this topic now. It dovetails with my Creative Inspiration blog this week and with my experience with making both poetry and visual art. If we look too hard, too directly, or too focused, we narrow the field of discovery. I tried to address this in my poem "What is Found in Found Poetry" that arrived from the periphery. The periphery is where the surprises lay in wait. Thank you for the moth migration analogy--I love that image!
Yes. I like this and the metaphor of focus and periphery helps me. Neat post, Radha!
Yes. Jared Carter even wrote a poem that touches on the peripheral approach:
https://poets.org/poem/after-rain