07-22-2014, 03:31 PM
some critics like you the fellow critic to have the no cloths feeling. just say what you feel, if you get nothing from it, say so and say why you think it is. from what i've seen many would be critics haven't got a clue either, often they just rewrite what the critic before them wrote and put up a similar piece. i notice that if a good critic speaks in a negative way, so do all the ones who follow; who wants to be different? honesty will get more than silence. irony wears a wry smile.
(07-22-2014, 08:14 AM)just mercedes Wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/201...d=tw-share
This makes so much sense to me - yet it seems she's a voice in the wilderness.
On the course I'm doing, I'm expected to offer critiques on the chosen workshop poems. There have been two so far that I just can't make head nor tail of, and so have just kept my big mouth shut (for a change)
Yet others have commented in the most glowing terms. It leaves me with the 'emperor has no clothes' feeling.
Any thoughts?
