Poetry of James Maughn
KATA
The poet James Maughn is a student of Karate and particularly of the movement sequences called
Katas.
The Katas teach ways of movement.
Maughn wrote each poem in the book
KATA
in response to one of the Kata movements that Maughn has studied.
The poems depict the energy and the ways of movement but they
are not descriptive of the Kata movements. Rather, Maughn says, they are about finding ways
in language to express that movement.
It is fascinating to attend a poetry reading by Maughn and hear him speak about his process.
His work is both responsive and tangential, both simple and iterative,
of fractured and overlaid images.
Here is his first poem:
Pinan
sho
really no other way how to walk
when you know
you've been all wrong doing it
breathing
the same
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