10-24-2018, 09:33 AM
How many times have you read literary criticism and then went back and read a poem and liked it better? Even if the critic is wrong. Sometimes it works. And the poem takes off for new. Poetry is a wild thing. But I have been told I shouldn't say such naive things.
And you have poets who are also critics. And then the poetry and the criticism become one. Then you have to get a bigger critic and a bigger poet, and the lovely fight goes on.
And there are some of us that are just batshit crazy, . . . But we're just so relentlessly convincing.
And I think that criticism is a creative activity. And is no more scientific than a poem. And shouldn't be. And that it's fun and enlightening and enjoyable. And so, people should learn to like it.
Writing your own poems, however, is frustrating and embarrassing and uncertain and passionate and nasty and painful and intoxicating and almost sexual, but without the benefit of a partner.
And you have poets who are also critics. And then the poetry and the criticism become one. Then you have to get a bigger critic and a bigger poet, and the lovely fight goes on.
And there are some of us that are just batshit crazy, . . . But we're just so relentlessly convincing.
And I think that criticism is a creative activity. And is no more scientific than a poem. And shouldn't be. And that it's fun and enlightening and enjoyable. And so, people should learn to like it.
Writing your own poems, however, is frustrating and embarrassing and uncertain and passionate and nasty and painful and intoxicating and almost sexual, but without the benefit of a partner.