stale_hermit ([info]stale_hermit) wrote,
@ 2008-03-31 20:12:00
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Current mood:artistic

Officially dangerous
Yes, because I can correctly use the poetry term "enjambment" in coherent sentences. More jargon to stuff into the old brain.

Going to the Monday poetry group at the local library is really reminding me that I need to find a writers group. I am now (almost nearly) a rabid & slavering critiquer of poems because, basically, I'm not really getting out of the ivory tower for much of anything else beyond groceries and post office errands.

Stanley Kunitz -- a resounding Yes.
Ted Kooser -- it depends.
Gerald Stern -- sorry, I wouldn't have voted him for Poet Laureate in a ba-zillion years.

Li-Young Lee -- Good Stuff.
Naomi Shihab Nye -- Admirable writing, but most of it's prose. Good prose, but still, not poetry.

And I'm still sticking with my guy Borges. He's the whole package. Recursively.



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