~ in the neck is low tech, through the heart is high art ~ |
What makes a poem good? Abstraction declared by the concrete? Is it the reader who makes a poem bad or good? For better or verse? Is it the mood of composition that matters, or the mood of interpretation? Does it lie in extended metaphor, or stand in truth fully concrete? Is a good poem well behaved, only breaking rules with strategy? As a rule I don't rate poetry about poetry but sometimes like this time I write it How important are puns & did you notice the pun in my title? I have questions & answers about scansion & voice. Is poetry what's lost in translation? When a poem falls in a forest & nobody's there, does it still make a sound? & tell me, is poetry supposed to help? Should I use the technique of rhetorical question? Has my best poem arrived, or is it on its way? (This isn't it. No question.) I wonder do poems change colour in certain lights? Is a poem a conversation or just veneer? How privileged is poetry? What's its day job? Is a good poem one that keeps being read? When is your audience? What one poem am I writing, time after time? Is this poem finished, yet? April 18 - question something |