tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009551625417231557.post4020861384277667999..comments2023-08-25T05:10:41.926-04:00Comments on the death of everything: DriveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009551625417231557.post-77333068532773992062009-03-09T20:33:00.000-04:002009-03-09T20:33:00.000-04:00Yeah, politics (especially American politics) is i...Yeah, politics (especially American politics) is intellectual potato chips.<BR/><BR/>Someday I'm going to get the nerve to write sonnets. Enough to fill an intermediate size collection. That will probably happen when I'm in my sixties (not all that far away).<BR/><BR/>Hope things are going well -Bill Zinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614494130260695458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009551625417231557.post-80613452728332985062009-03-09T16:40:00.000-04:002009-03-09T16:40:00.000-04:00it's a nice, (relatively) flat poem like you say. ...it's a nice, (relatively) flat poem like you say. not a great deal of depth (although more than might appear at first read). these are often the toughest poems to write well because the margin for error is so small. easy to write but hard to be more than mediocre. kinda like a chet baker solo. it's a tribute to you as a poet that you keep working on it.<BR/><BR/>i'm in a poetry workshop this semester and have a handful of so-so poems. it seems i'm becoming ever more conventional in terms of form. but, that's probably a good thing. i think my stuff has a little more depth than usual as a result. or not. anyway, i'll try to send some stuff your way soon. <BR/><BR/>we should try to push each other a little harder to write more poetry. arguing politics, et al offers immediate gratification but i find that it leaves me feeling rather empty. sorta like watching tv. but writing a good poem is a genuine pleasure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009551625417231557.post-7179282701957131122009-03-07T15:19:00.000-05:002009-03-07T15:19:00.000-05:00This is a relatively recent version. I do like it...This is a relatively recent version. I do like it in some respects, but I don't think it is one of the better things I have written. It keeps showing up because it keeps getting rewritten, and I end up liking it a little bit more every time I do. <BR/><BR/>I think of this as a fairly simple, straightforward poem that doesn't have much complexity & doesn't really function on many levels below the surface (a few, but not many). I would like to think there are some interesting resonances here, but it is more or less devoid of some of the formal concerns I address in other poems.<BR/><BR/>Come to think of it, most of the poetry I have posted here is of the same ilk. I will have to remedy that sometime soon. I'm plodding away at a longer poem now which is quite different from what's here. When I get some interesting fragments, I will post them. Of course, that could be months or even years down the road (it's part of the Action Figures project I've been writing at since I first showed you "Cold" & have been doing background on for over six years now).Bill Zinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614494130260695458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8009551625417231557.post-71586611131350861822009-03-07T14:55:00.000-05:002009-03-07T14:55:00.000-05:00is this a recent version? i haven't actually compa...is this a recent version? i haven't actually compared this version to mine but it seems slightly different than i remember. alslo, i've been meaning to ask if this is one of your personal favorites? i've seen it quite a few places. just curious. hope all's well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com