As I remarked on Bryan's blog, to do public poetry well, you have be an Auden or a Dryden, and you need a sensibility different from the one that makes people want to be poets these days.
I wanted to write something myself today, look into the poem and what's been written and not written about it, but didn't get a chance.
But, I was over at a poetry forum called Delectable Mnts. There, Art Durkee linked to an article by Reb Livingston on her blog Home-Schooled By a Cackling Jackal. She begins :
Hi Frank,
ReplyDeleteI wanted to write something myself today, look into the poem and what's been written and not written about it, but didn't get a chance.
But, I was over at a poetry forum called Delectable Mnts. There, Art Durkee linked to an article by Reb Livingston on her blog Home-Schooled By a Cackling Jackal. She begins :
I planned to stay quiet on the inaugural poem and wait for the nasty discussion to simmer down, but I'm disturbed.
Yours,
Rus