Comments | matelda: i like poetry

matelda

i like poetry

Jul 26, 2008 19:39

Poetry

http://www.lapetitezine.org/Gregory.Lawless.htm

Comments 6

templeemc July 27 2008, 10:17:22 UTC

I'm not saying this to be snide, but because I want you to teach me something.

You know I find 90% (or more) of poetry to be shit.

Well I'm finding it hard to not include this in the 90 right now.

Please help explain what I'm not getting, because when I read that I see nothing but verbal masturbation. The light hitting my eyes feeling like a beautiful, but sorrowfully empty box.

matelda July 27 2008, 23:04:04 UTC

Verbal masturbation is a really really good term for bad poetry ( ... )

templeemc July 28 2008, 01:24:15 UTC

I know this isn't very current and not at all 'hip', but I like eastern, poetry: The Dhammapada, The Tao Te Ching, Chuang-tsu, Rumi, Love poems by the 14th Century Dalai Lama.
I like prose that feels poetic: Tom Robbins, Umberto Ecco, even Garrison Keillor can sometimes feel like poetry.
I'm honestly not that well versed in poetry, simply because it does tend to turn me off.
When I was a kid I liked Poe and Shakespeare, maybe some Emerson, Thoreau and occasionally Yeats, Wilde, and I really do like the romantics.
I'm sure I'll delve into more, but I don't go for much more right now.

kittygomeowr July 27 2008, 10:21:05 UTC

Yay for poetry!
I especially like the second one. It's a lot less manic than the first and feels a little more coherent.

matelda July 27 2008, 23:56:20 UTC

I think it's better too. It's less busy.

kittygomeowr July 28 2008, 02:46:20 UTC

Yeah. I think that's it exactly. That and it felt like he wasn't really doing anything with the first one but name dropping, sorta.