03-04-2010, 08:29 AM
I think angst poems are okay. Lots of great writers were (and are) emotionally troubled people, and for them writing is a way to vent. It actually is. It can have the same use as a diary, except its not literal, it's just you breathing your emotions.
The thing is, if the piece is meant to be read in a professional light, then the challenge for the writer is to not go on an emotional journey by himself/herself, but to be able to take the reader to that place as well. To rattle them into a different perspective. In a way that's why suicide poems are hard, because you end up going to a place where the reader can't follow
A way to make this work for the audience is to keep it short and visceral:
'with this razor
I slice free
from my skin
to the sky'
But it's important to keep writing and letting out that emotion.just keep writing.
The thing is, if the piece is meant to be read in a professional light, then the challenge for the writer is to not go on an emotional journey by himself/herself, but to be able to take the reader to that place as well. To rattle them into a different perspective. In a way that's why suicide poems are hard, because you end up going to a place where the reader can't follow
A way to make this work for the audience is to keep it short and visceral:
'with this razor
I slice free
from my skin
to the sky'
But it's important to keep writing and letting out that emotion.just keep writing.
PS. If you can, try your hand at giving some of the others a bit of feedback. If you already have, thanks, can you do some more?