02-08-2013, 10:50 PM
To say something short and simple, since I have no advice: So many different kinds of people have said so many different things about things that I write, good and bad, so I just do what I feel I need to do. I think that so much of the poetry that gets published and gets most publicity in the podcasts on the Poetry Foundation site and in poetry magazines elsewhere is extremely boring.
I have a handful of poems that I've been working on for years. But for the most part, I am satisfied with poems within a few days. Satisfied with the individual poem, but not finished. Poetry comes before art, and art comes before good poetry. I think it's a good thing that I've read a lot of poetry, and read and listened to so much of what people say about poetry. That stuff comes out, and helps me craft my poems. But I have a very primitive, but not altogether superstitious, approach to writing. If that affects my writings in a negative way, I don't mind to hear people say it. But it's how I work.
I don't like to give advice, it's hard enough taking it.
I have a handful of poems that I've been working on for years. But for the most part, I am satisfied with poems within a few days. Satisfied with the individual poem, but not finished. Poetry comes before art, and art comes before good poetry. I think it's a good thing that I've read a lot of poetry, and read and listened to so much of what people say about poetry. That stuff comes out, and helps me craft my poems. But I have a very primitive, but not altogether superstitious, approach to writing. If that affects my writings in a negative way, I don't mind to hear people say it. But it's how I work.
I don't like to give advice, it's hard enough taking it.