02-09-2012, 02:32 PM
I like haggis, but not chocolate haggis.
The thing about form poetry is, a lot of writers pay way too much attention to dotting eyeballs and crossing t-shirts without every figuring out why they're being asked to do it that way in the first place. No poem is going to be comfortable if it's starched and stuffed into entirely the wrong suit.
Don't blame the form, blame the person who's doing such terrible things with it. And then have more chocolate.
The thing about form poetry is, a lot of writers pay way too much attention to dotting eyeballs and crossing t-shirts without every figuring out why they're being asked to do it that way in the first place. No poem is going to be comfortable if it's starched and stuffed into entirely the wrong suit.
Don't blame the form, blame the person who's doing such terrible things with it. And then have more chocolate.
It could be worse