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[proximoception]

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

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[parishat.livejournal.com]

i don't like poetry that makes me work really really hard to understand it, but then i can't, and i feel cheated and frustrated. i guess humans do that too sometimes, but with poems, i feel more defeated.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

What poems have defeated you that way?

I mostly run into trouble with poems where intelligibility itself seems to be a non-issue - the poet isn't trying for it, or can't achieve it because of mental static on their end. So I blame a human there too, for sharing if not for writing.

[(Anonymous)]

Jorie Graham.

ot--Lunch with Sircy in a few.

[parishat.livejournal.com]

that's me--the Graham line.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Never read a word of hers, but you're the second person to speak against her to me this week. And rumor has it she's not a very nice person?

[parishat.livejournal.com]

I'd have to disagree--from all I remember, including recent dinners together, she's a very nice person. but the poetry is impenetrable, IMHO.