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Why is it "Titan Dome"?
The Antarctic is international, the only continent without cultures/states. Poetry is also international in the sense that its structures are available to everyone beyond the requirements of the culture/state in which the poetry is found.
Titan Dome is the highest elevation closest to the Antarctic pole; the dome results as subterranean pressures force the surface upward (thus the notion of the commonplace upwelling, rising above all else from low or base conditions to the highest). Poets are the Titans among us who have risen above their personal experience and views, then offered them to others.
Classically, Titans derived from Chaos and represented the universal order of the planets; they ruled before the Olympians (the so often fickle and self-serving gods of demos and polis -- the people and the city/state). Each of the Titans served a specific purpose, as do poets.
The Titans (named in English) were Necessity, Love, Force, Violence, Power, Darkness, Desire, Retribution, the Psyche (mind and soul), Longing, Light, Pleasure, Memory, Order, Forethought ("Prometheus"); they were also Fear, Delusion, Madness, Afterthought (stupidity) Night, Sleep (or forgetfulness), Doom, Death, Dreams, the Flow and flux of matter, the Oceans and seas, Gloom, Jealousy, Envy, and Wisdom.
The Titans were, as Poetry is, the representation of subterranean forces, an upwelling from deep within that changes perceptions in the surrounding, apparently chaotic world in which each individual exists as if captive to an all-encompassing private universe of personal experience. Likewise, Titans represent the highest obtainable objects (the planets, through vision). When we communicate through poetry, we make order from chaos, and give fire thus vision to others (the poet is Prometheus, forethought, rather than his brother Epimetheus, afterthought or stupidity--one who sees rather than one who should or might have seen).
The domes we see are parts of a perfect form--the orb or circle. The dome is also a "home" ("domus" or "domicile"), that edifice/structure where what goes on inside (the "domestic") intersects the outer ("economic") world.
At TITAN DOME, we believe poets are promethean (they selflessly bring order and light by seeing ahead --forethought and vision) rather than epimethean (those who see poetry as merely following the thought, a self-comforting stupidity). Prometheus and the Poet bring the fire of knowledge to be used for a purpose (enLIGHTenment). And, as Prometheus was a Titan, the Poet unites both Mind and Soul (science and drama). What is made for the people who then make culture from its manifestations--the fire--the poem--is worthy of study.
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TITAN DOME -- Poetics and Praxis
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