I think that's a really interesting idea - the idea of their being three
stages of relaisATION about the nature of the poetry you write....
And don't worry bout the polemic...I'm worse for lapsing into over-excitd
adjective speech that confuses myself!!!
And I'm not sure quite what stage im at...perhaps it's a case that you may
go through each stage with each new piece you write? That you first think
you have written some incredibly clever and important poem( then realise
you haven't...or at least hopefully you realise that!) then you worry if
anyone will understand it(which as you say, they probably will cos it
isnt't really as clever as you thought haha!) then you worry if it's
successful...and then you hit the really interesting notion of what is a
poem's success? that it's read? that it's published? that it does
something new? something worthwhile? "says" something?
And it all comes full circle really doesn't it?
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