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proximoception ([personal profile] proximoception) wrote2009-03-13 11:12 pm

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What kind of poetry don't you like and why?

[identity profile] andalus.livejournal.com 2009-03-14 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
but that's not really poetry and I know it. poetry capital-p.

do you not like certain things which actually are poetry?

[identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com 2009-03-14 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Things that are awesome but reading them displeases me? I hope not.

Almost everything large numbers of people bother to praise is good for something - and something you can recognize. But not all of those somethings are necessary, and many are pretty blithely outclassed by works of other poets packed tight with everythings.

That said, Pound sucks.



[identity profile] erotetica.livejournal.com 2009-03-14 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw man I love Pound. 'The Garden' is such a nice poem to recite to yourself as you walk around the green spaces of London, feeling intensely melancholic.