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[proximoception]

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

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[andalus.livejournal.com]

O you have no idea. Cruising the contemporary lit mag scene in some attempt to be productive is physically grating. Nothing makes you never want to write again quite like the writing of your peers. Look over at Octopus Magazine. I've always wanted to enjoy this magazine, since it's the best-designed electronic mag out there, always attracting heavy hitters, always even-tempered, a big part of the scene from even before it opened (I remember Kris Kahn talking to me about it before the first issue, being very impressed with the editors, how it's one to watch.) But the poetry is such shit. All surrealism and artifice, masks on masks dancing on each other, the poetic equivalent of going through a particularly violent car wash.

I want someone to explain to me the ethos of this school of thought, I'm sure I'm missing something.

[andalus.livejournal.com]

but that's not really poetry and I know it. poetry capital-p.

do you not like certain things which actually are poetry?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

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.

[erotetica.livejournal.com]

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.