10-13-2021, 11:59 AM
Hi CRNDLSM,
Thank you for spending your time with this and critiquing it. You make many valid points and have given me much food for thought. My reading of your critique reminded me of the poetic corollary that Mary Kinsie forwards in her book: "A Poet's Guide to Poetry"- (p.13)
"The reader follows, via the poem as a ghostly map, the many paths that were not taken by the author, but whose possibility leaves a shadow like crosshatching on the paths that remain. To read this way keeps a poem always provisional and still in the making, which is how the process of reading absorbs the act of writing to their mutual improvement in terms of skill and understanding."
She also recounts that Howard Nemerov once said to her: "You never asks a poet what he means, you tell him."
Thanks once again for your close read and good suggestions. Much appreciated.
Cheers,
Beowulf
Thank you for spending your time with this and critiquing it. You make many valid points and have given me much food for thought. My reading of your critique reminded me of the poetic corollary that Mary Kinsie forwards in her book: "A Poet's Guide to Poetry"- (p.13)
"The reader follows, via the poem as a ghostly map, the many paths that were not taken by the author, but whose possibility leaves a shadow like crosshatching on the paths that remain. To read this way keeps a poem always provisional and still in the making, which is how the process of reading absorbs the act of writing to their mutual improvement in terms of skill and understanding."
She also recounts that Howard Nemerov once said to her: "You never asks a poet what he means, you tell him."
Thanks once again for your close read and good suggestions. Much appreciated.
Cheers,
Beowulf