Kamala

[billy]

Billy,

"sadly i couldn't get into it enough to retain anything of it."

How strange. Out of all the existential writings, and also considering Hesse is German, "Siddhartha" has always struck me as reading almost like poetry, it has been Hesse's other works that have struck me as difficult. Of course none so difficult as Sartre's "Being in Nothingness". Not to cast aspersions, I just find it interesting how people respond to things. There are many so called "Masterworks" which I find a total yawn. It was not until my thirties that I began to enjoy Shakespeare, although I was completely enamored of William Blake by the time I was nineteen.

Dale

my education was sparse, exceptionally so. and my main reading material was old newspapers and my brothers porn stash. it was only later on i realised such works existed. one of my first epiphanies was Zola's earth.
i was in my early twenties. after that it was the glass beads, which were completely different. as for Shakespeare, i never got into him my taste had already been tainted by Sven hassle etc. on in the last 10 or so years am becoming educated to some of what is known as the great works. an odd poem here, a excerpt there.

i find it exciting that while i can't produce great poems, i can sometimes get the chance to give feedback on one . luckily we have a few good writers on the site. what's weird is that the more i read this thread, the more i remember Kamala. and the more i forget her. i think soon i'll be revisiting her and hesse. sorry it's not about the poem you wrote. just a thought or two in response