judy prince wrote:
> Ken, U needa provide CLUES to your pomes. I mean, despite my loving
> this one and all, I can't figger out what the word "watercolor"
> means. Like, does that mean that, like, acrylics would be more, say,
> "heavy" than watercolors? Or pottery would be the medium most lending
> itself to music that flees. I'm WAY confused, K, and I needa pass
> this damn poetry course (POMES FER DUMMIES), so please help me!
>
> Yo mama
Mah mama? Hah. I don't know what the poem is entirely about, I am sort
of onto the genesis, I wrote the draft in the back of a colletion of
Denise Levertov's last poems published in 1999 after her death. I was
waiting for a train to arrive in Metropark. Words just happened to try
to get at thoughts over the last few days. It's got nothing as far as
know with Levertov.
I am not good at telegraphing anymore. Used to work.
Watercolor is a reference to an initially affecting poem by Anne Sexton,
"For My Married Love Going Back to his Wife." Read in the light I sat
in Friday night, the Sexton poem suddenly hit me as self-pitying. She
describes the "solid" qualities of the wife, but concludes that "I am a
watecolor, I wash off." Not to mention trying to slam "Ode To A
Nightingale" in there. What I THINK I get at is the endless
repeatablity of results: loving the wrong people, using diferent colors
over the same outline, the result is the same...unless somehow we can
break the pattern.
I do not like intellectualizing my writing, The explanations are always
off. I cannot entirely explain what I'm thinking or doing.
Ken
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Kenneth Wolman http://kenwolman.com http://kenwolman.blogspot.com
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