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[idioticpoet]

I recently edited my earlier post to include links to info about Michelle Tea. Well, for those of you who missed that entry, and/or don't feel like backtracking, here's a quotation that I've pulled from an interview with her:

Poetry can be so vague and personal and I really love that about it but I think it's also what makes people think they don'

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[animaltime]

Definitely going to check her out; also, that's a great interview.

[idioticpoet]

I think you'd like her writing.

[sacramentalist]

It's kinda like dreams. They make sense just to the dreamer.

[idioticpoet]

I both agree and disagree.

On the agreement side, sometimes, I think that (myself included) poets get bogged down with symbolism/metaphors that our meanings/intent behind the poem(s) are often lost, or, individual work(s) are sometimes laced with references that are only understood by those who have been exposed to the same influences and/or have knowledge of what's been referenced- i.e., this poem of mine which references both Jack Kerouac and Jack London.

On the disagreement side- Sometimes poems (and other types of artistic output) are written without any obscure references, and are rendered so as not to require a rosetta stone to decode i.e. this poem of mine

[quellybelly]

Yes! I don't know how I missed this post. You nailed it right on the head.

[idioticpoet]

michelle tea is awesome.