u/BerenPercival

SPOILERS FOR DAY 1 OF THE CAMPAIGN. DON'T READ ON UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET SPOILED.

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So, I've just finished my very first day of my very first campaign. I'm running the Voice of the Elders precon deck published on EBR's site. I really like the animals and the connecting. However, the precon doesn't give you Riri, which is a sahme. But it doesn't seem to affect the way the deck plays.

Anyways, I had a very lucky first day. Was able to search the path deck with cards for Hy and I ran into the flier early on. So we hopped directly over to White Sky--had to get rid of those darn biscuits. Problem is Oru and I got hungry on the way, so I was only able to give a couple away to White Sky folks.

Wasn't sure where I wanted to go next, but luckily, I ran into the boatkeeper, who was kind enough to ferry me across the lake to Artox Mountain--but not before I got a quest to deal with the Quiet.

Showed up in Artox, befriended the Quiest (thanks Oru & Pokodo), and decided to nope out of there to the Northern Outpost.

Quiet a big day for my first run. I'm sure I got some rules wrong, but I had a blast, and it felt crazy to be able to do so much exploring on the first day.

Am about to embark on a read of The Maximus Poems and am wanting to get a decent grasp on Olson's notion of Projective Verse, how it's distinct from Levertov's Organic Form and "free verse" (which isn't free) more generally, and what this all means for the function of line breaks, punctuation, and spacing of the poems.

If the unit is the breath and the grammar is the connection of perception to perception, what does that have to do with the shape of the poem? What is gained by breaking lines, of the incessant enjambment, of throwing words into different shapes and spaces across the page? What, then, is the function of form as a heuristic for meaning and for the act of reading w/r/t projective verse?

It would, of course, help if the poet himself weren't obscurantist in his theory.