[lit-ideas] Re: How To Write A Poem.
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:54:12 -0500
Dear David and Eric,. thank you for your comments. Both of you seem to
assume that I have some awareness of what I'm doing. I don't.
David's comment -- "I like the poem, particularly the zero sum game,
nothing to the visitors, nothing to the victors, nothing to the victims.
Yes, that's about it." -- I like that comment. I just wish that it was in
my what I had intended. I have no idea what I intended. I just like the
sound of it at the moment. But I like the fact that you made the poem your
own. That's what art's all about, I think.
Eric's comment that I don't leave enough mystery in my writing is, I hate
to admit, spot on. But I can explain that. I usually have no idea where
any poem is going or what it's about and so I don't trust anything I write
and always feel compelled to justify the whole enterprise. Find some moral
in it. Maybe it's a Catholic thing.
Mike Geary
Memphis
My friend
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:53 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> On Jun 14, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Mike Geary wrote:
>
>
>> So let's get back to the how of poetry writing. Lesson 1: steal. A dear
>> friend of mine in college, a very talented writer who converted his talent
>> for writing into a talent for courting rich women -- and successfully!.
>>
>
> I had just such a friend, funniest guy, wrote admirable letters some of
> which I still have. And what did he become? An academic administrator,
> joined the dark side of the Force. Says he believes in systems and
> outcomes, control of the curriculum, that whole bit. You should have seen
> his face when they wanted to investigate his footnotes.
>
> I like the poem, particularly the zero sum game, nothing to the visitors,
> nothing to the victors, nothing to the victims. Yes, that's about it.
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
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