poetics
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Politics & Poetics – a repost
Sometimes when I experience a crisis of confidence, as I have lately (what am I doing? is it any good? what does it matter? & so on) I scroll back through this blog, just to see what I have been doing. Late last night I came across this post, from January 2008, which I had… Continue reading
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Poetry, Personality & Design
We’ve been having some interesting discussions about poems, poetry, and poetics on the PoetryEtc list — some of it focused around my own recent work. Frederick Pollack offered some thorough and pointed criticism of my poems — and my ‘kind’ of poetry. What is my kind of poetry? Mainstream, I gather. Lyrical, perhaps. Not,… Continue reading
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How to Critique a Poem
First, I do not expect every comment on my poems to be a critique — please don’t feel required to become a critic! Please, please don’t! I love getting comments on my poems; just that tells me it meant something for you. Critiques are, however, welcome if you feel so inclined. This post is… Continue reading
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Politics & Poetics
[UPDATED 8:00 PM 16 January: Wow. Andrew Sullivan just linked to the poem. My stats are booming!] My poems seldom incite controversy, but I Have This To Say About That, regarding why the New Hampshire pollsters got it wrong, has done exactly that, here and elsewhere. Comments and emails on this poem have reminded me… Continue reading
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Poems, Poetry, Poetics, Cats
My regular readers will know that I rarely talk about my poems, or poetics — I just post the poems and move on. Last night, in my usual waiting- for- sleep place, I began to prepare a post about The Ledge, and my surprise at its reception; I woke this morning to find that an… Continue reading
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