Not necessarily, Joe. I want to go to places where an editor has
looked at the material & made a decision to accept it.
(Then I want to trust that editor)
I think I was most taken by Stephen's comments about reading poetry &
not being able to remember much about a lot of it. Yet, I carry, even
in my rather sieve-like mind, a number of lines (& therefore something
of the poems from which they come); many are older, by masters, such
as Yeats, Pound, or ever much earlier poets.
Do I want to write a line that will be remembered? Probably. Do I want
someone to read a few f my poems sometime in the future & feel as if
they have received a worthy communication? Yup. I do so wish.
But I also realize that I read a lot of word oriented away from the
lyric line toward the larger gestures of form in which the individual
line or stanza is less important than the overall effect...
And I like those, too....
Doug
On 30-Jun-08, at 9:34 AM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
> Doug, thanks. I find it interesting that a thread -- where the hell is
> Stephen? he started this! -- about the place of the lyric (and poetry
> generally, by extension), wound around & came down to modes of
> publication.
> My personal bit of this was, "Why write at all if one doesn't have
> readers?"
> I got some good responses to that question. Not fully explored,
> though, is
> the role of the editors & other gatekeepers that David wants to do
> without.
> I'm not sure we can do without them, in some form. Perhaps I cede
> them too
> much power.
>
> jd
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