daughter
Dreamer
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all things sexual
juicy--
I love Adrienne Rich's work and I certainly respect Ms. Sexton's.
I do not object to sexual themes. I enjoy them a great deal; that's how I showed up here. What sucks is the drivel being passed off as art. I'm not arguing for D.H. Lawrence material, but b-rated porn often is flat and uncreative.
What I dislike is poorly contructed work. Call me anal(I've heard worse) I am annoyed by the notion that poetry means little more than slapping 'poetic' sounding lines together, arbitrarily inserting line breaks and slapping 'poem' on the header.
I resent the casualness of writers touting things as poetry. Do we scribble lines in jest and call ourselves writers? If I plucked a few chords on a guitar, would you call me a guitarist? That's my point. I don't know, but if you're going to bake a cake, you need flour and eggs. Folks might bother to read a recipe or two. Pies ain't cakes and cookies don't require milk.
Have fun, whiz off lines for fun, but then don't be offended if a reader finds no literary merit in the effort. I call a spade a spade. That's all.
I submitted a piece for Judo's challenge. It was fun, and I enjoyed doing it. But it aint erotic; some might call it poetry. I call it parody and mediocre.
Peace,
daughter
juicy--
I love Adrienne Rich's work and I certainly respect Ms. Sexton's.
I do not object to sexual themes. I enjoy them a great deal; that's how I showed up here. What sucks is the drivel being passed off as art. I'm not arguing for D.H. Lawrence material, but b-rated porn often is flat and uncreative.
What I dislike is poorly contructed work. Call me anal(I've heard worse) I am annoyed by the notion that poetry means little more than slapping 'poetic' sounding lines together, arbitrarily inserting line breaks and slapping 'poem' on the header.
I resent the casualness of writers touting things as poetry. Do we scribble lines in jest and call ourselves writers? If I plucked a few chords on a guitar, would you call me a guitarist? That's my point. I don't know, but if you're going to bake a cake, you need flour and eggs. Folks might bother to read a recipe or two. Pies ain't cakes and cookies don't require milk.
Have fun, whiz off lines for fun, but then don't be offended if a reader finds no literary merit in the effort. I call a spade a spade. That's all.
I submitted a piece for Judo's challenge. It was fun, and I enjoyed doing it. But it aint erotic; some might call it poetry. I call it parody and mediocre.
Peace,
daughter