Final thoughts
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poetreeI considered many topics for this last post.
What can you tell about a person from the poetry she selects?: I like poems about sex, about God (especially if bitter or twisted or odd in some way), about writing, about language, about memory and about history. I like poems that use and reuse mythological motifs, especially Icarus. I like poems with a strong sense of place, and interesting takes on mental illness. I like poems about bodies and about loneliness and about the intangible things which pass down through families. And I like silly wordplay.
Would I recommend the practice of daily poetry posting?: That depends. Do you like lists, and repetitious behaviour? Are you plagued by the feeling that mere reading is meaningless without some output? Are you willing to be bored by poetry?
Would I do it again? Certainly not next year!
Am I Well Read yet? No, no I am not.
Any new favourite poets? Lesbia Harford, I suppose, although my fondness for her is as much historical as it is related to the quality of her work. I don't think I've found a cache of work by a hitherto unknown-to-me author, not yet. I have expanded my familiarity with some - especially Jack Gilbert, Billy Collins, Audre Lorde and Margaret Atwood - but the authors I keep drifting back to (aside from medieval lit) remain Yeats, Banjo Patterson, Jack Gilbert and Adrienne J. Odasso.
What can you tell about a person from the poetry she selects?: I like poems about sex, about God (especially if bitter or twisted or odd in some way), about writing, about language, about memory and about history. I like poems that use and reuse mythological motifs, especially Icarus. I like poems with a strong sense of place, and interesting takes on mental illness. I like poems about bodies and about loneliness and about the intangible things which pass down through families. And I like silly wordplay.
Would I recommend the practice of daily poetry posting?: That depends. Do you like lists, and repetitious behaviour? Are you plagued by the feeling that mere reading is meaningless without some output? Are you willing to be bored by poetry?
Would I do it again? Certainly not next year!
Am I Well Read yet? No, no I am not.
Any new favourite poets? Lesbia Harford, I suppose, although my fondness for her is as much historical as it is related to the quality of her work. I don't think I've found a cache of work by a hitherto unknown-to-me author, not yet. I have expanded my familiarity with some - especially Jack Gilbert, Billy Collins, Audre Lorde and Margaret Atwood - but the authors I keep drifting back to (aside from medieval lit) remain Yeats, Banjo Patterson, Jack Gilbert and Adrienne J. Odasso.
