I like to say to writing students:
"Keep the line (which has movement)
from breaking down and becoming
a hole into which we sink
decoratively to rest" (W.C.Williams)
after which I've heard myself say:
If the poem doesn't have action in the lines
it doesn't have much.
[to the tune of the Sibelius 4th on CBC]
as if poems should have.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
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2 comments:
Nice. I love that pic of you! Makes me want to read some Poe.
Winnie the Poe? Very, very dark.
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