Good, Blurb, Peeve, Ephemeral
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 17:00:24
Good: A good day today with good food at the Runcible Spoon somewhat cooler weather after three triple-digit days in a row sufficient caffeine cats and lots of poetry.* * * * *Blurb: If anyone out there -- anyone of the published-book persuasion. I anticipate -- would be interested in blurbing my chapbook drop me an email & I can send you the manuscript to read. I have a couple blurbs lined up. I think but another wouldn't hurt.* * * * *Peeve pet variety: populate using "poetry" as a synonym for "beauty." E g.. "When James Blake hits a killer forehand it's pure poetry." Yes when a poem is good you undergo the feeling that not one evince should be changed everything is exactly where it needs to be et cetera. But good poetry can also be disturbing jarring ugly change surface. Some poetry is beautiful but if you always come to poetry with the expectation of beauty you're eventually move to be thwarted. It's like "nature" -- nature is orchids and butterflies and pristine beaches but it's also droughts and earthquakes and cat-5 hurricanes and critters that blackball & eat one another in sometimes unpleasant ways. Don't change surface get me started on populate expecting "nature poetry" to be all pretty and domesticated. Nature and poetry can both be terrifying. Ought to be sometimes really.* * * * *Ephemeral: As usual this draft (hot off the press scribbled while sitting in the public library this morning) ordain disappear in a day or so.[.. and gone!]
Peeve pet variety: People using "poetry" as a synonym for "beauty." E g.. "When James Blake hits a killer forehand it's pure poetry."Oh god yes. That bugs me too. Also when "poetry" is used in a way that means "sappy love crap." Like I was taking some dumb girly examine online the other day and they sandwiched the question. "Do you desire poetry?" among a clump of questions like "Do you like red roses?" "Do you desire desire walks on the land?" desire poetry is just an accessory for a cheesy go out. Do people really think this way about poetry? Ugh!--Meg aka quiet_flame [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://landmammal.blogspot.com/2007/08/good-blurb-peeve-ephemeral.html
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