11-20-2012, 05:39 PM
I've always enjoyed poems which keep an emotional distance from their subjects and regard them with a certain cockeyed irony. But then I also enjoy poems which deal intimately with personal lives, so I'm on the fence. I think technical skill is underrated though, and you can have passion for form.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

