Forum / wisdom in writing

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  Carol Reid

  Jun 12, 02:49pm

  As someone who likes to "weird the truth" in prose, I found this article disquieting and worthwhile to read-

  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/247926

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  Barry Basden

  Jun 12, 04:29pm

  http://goo.gl/WJnexk

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Jun 13, 04:54pm

  This may be the finest essay I've read in a long time.

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  Carol Reid

  Jun 13, 11:00pm

  Good to hear that you enjoyed it, James.

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  Sam Rasnake

  Jun 14, 01:47am

  Thanks for the link, Carol.

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  Sally Houtman

  Jun 14, 06:09am

  Interesting article. A bit heavy, but I liked this:

  "These poems give us what we want, but they also give us what we don’t yet know we need. The transition from one to the next can be uncomfortable because it is simultaneously obvious and surprising."

  and:

  "Consistency breeds apathy. The beauty of repetition lies in the occasional disruption of repetition: Expectation and reward. Expectation and reward. Expectation, expectation. Surprise!"

  Rote descriptions of what good writers just instinctively do.

  Thanks for the link.

• Frankie Saxx

  Jun 16, 08:48pm

  "To be oblique is not the same as to be opaque. Obliqueness refers to angles and slopes, to geometry that is not parallel."

  I guess art is in how you draw the lines.

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  Charlotte Hamrick

  Jun 16, 10:05pm

  “The essence of poetry is the unique view—the unguessed relationship, suddenly manifest. Poetry’s eye is always aslant, oblique,"

  Yep.

  Thanks for the link. Carol. This was really good.

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