The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E book

I don't know if my last poem would count for this language poetry/sound poetry. From reading the packet, I have gathered how much poetry has been changed to more concrete and deeper meanings than that of sound poets. The tribal sweat bath poem we read in class and just our whole discussion of this language poetry made me kind of understand more of what the purpose of these poems are. This kind of poetry seems to be more about the language/ words used in the poems than the content itself. I find this kind of odd, because I normally start out writing a poem with a certain concept in mind or a meaning I want to come across. I think the actually process of writing a language poem would involve so much effort or more than what I normally put into it, which is why I'm kind of afraid of attempting the assignment due on tuesday, because it is a language poem. I really have no clue how I'm going to go about writing it and I'm hoping we talk about it in class because my mind is not comprehending the possibility of me writing one of these poems. At times, I find myself completely confounded by the art of these poems that I really don't even want to try and write one. But since we have to for class, my best effort will go into the completion of one. I'm really hoping we talk about this in class and are given more examples to go off of. =/