Most of the poems
> posted on here are recent works-in-progress so they are likely to be a bit
> rough around the edges. In my opinion, any critique posted here should bear
> that in mind.
sure thing. one thing I find hard, though, is reading a poem with ANY
kind of filter. "I wrote this when feeling really blue", "I wrote this
on cocaine", "I wrote this based on an inscription on a stray piece of
toilet paper".. I don't need to know, I don't want to know. what I
want is the poetry, & there shouldn't be need for footnotes.
(this was a general exclamation, not related to your work Tina)
asking a critical question IS polite. maybe that's my problem, I ask
less & assert more. in the past, it's gotten things done; but when in
rome, frequent orgies as the romans do. or SO THEY SAY.
if I ask an author something, it's out of curiosity, not out of an
interest in helping the author better a poem. not a waste of energy,
just a selective form of energy.
cutting up doesn't seem wrong (I've never equated 'alien' with
'wrong'), just weird. I don't want to try it, I feel fine writing as I
do & I have enough problems with my regular way to not need a new
medium to prance through & pratfall about in. I do collage visual art,
that's all I know about it or care to know.
be easy
KS
On 01/06/07, Tina Bass <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kasper,
>
> I don't believe that you are deliberately abrasive (we have already had this
> conversation or something like in the past) but referring to anything as
> 'teenage' brings a lot of baggage with it. If you enjoy words - you must
> enjoy words or you wouldn't be here - then it is hard to believe that you
> didn't/don't realise that. If a poem did nothing for me then I would say
> nothing. If a poem does something for me but I thought it had problems then
> I might ask some questions - if I was interested enough. Most of the poems
> posted on here are recent works-in-progress so they are likely to be a bit
> rough around the edges. In my opinion, any critique posted here should bear
> that in mind.
>
> Some of the poets on this board might, for instance, ask a question -
> 'Tina, why did you write x in this way?' or 'what prompted you to use that
> tense in stanza x?' or 'where did you find that interesting spelling of x?'.
> This is polite. It might flag up possible problems to me. It also
> suggests that the person asking the question leaves some space for the
> possiblity that they have missed something. Maybe that seems like a waste
> of energy to you? And maybe that is to do with your relative youth? I don't
> know. My instincts tell me that this is not about window-dressing but is
> fundamental to the whole process of talking/communicating.
>
>
> And if cutting-up text to make a poem seems alien and wrong, then that is
> probably all the more reason to try it.
>
> I'll shut up now.
>
> Tina
> (both old and tired)
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