*tap tap* Is this thing on?
So, my first post. My virgin post. Numero Uno El Postarino. Yep. What a moment.
Snodgrass said, "The only reality which [a poet] can ever surely know is that self he cannot help being. ... If he pretties it up, if he changes its meaning, if he gives it the voice of any borrowed authority, if in short he rejects this reality, his mind will be less than alive. So will his words."
So I'm venturing into Live Journal Land. It won't be pretty, but I'm just wanting to be the best dang poet I can be and keep my words and mind alive -- such as they are. So here goes........
Snodgrass said, "The only reality which [a poet] can ever surely know is that self he cannot help being. ... If he pretties it up, if he changes its meaning, if he gives it the voice of any borrowed authority, if in short he rejects this reality, his mind will be less than alive. So will his words."
So I'm venturing into Live Journal Land. It won't be pretty, but I'm just wanting to be the best dang poet I can be and keep my words and mind alive -- such as they are. So here goes........