An online commonplace book
The thing you should try to do in your writing is to be grateful for being alive. Just to be suffused with gratitude at what is given you.
– Dana Gioia
A masterclass on tap. Coincidence that two of America’s best writers, The Gioia brothers, are also openly very metaphysical?
a record player that doesn't work,
a radio that doesn't work,
and I don't work --
I sit between 2 lamps,
bottle on the floor
begging a 20-year-old typewriter
to say something, in a way and
well enough
From the poem one more good one, by Charles Bukowski
Bukowski, Charles. What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire. United States, HarperCollins, 2009. pg 127
Frost. I don’t know why I even bothered submitting anything, given how he writes. I mean he’s still using rhyme.
Yeah, so?
Rhyme is bullshit. Rhyme says that everything works out in the end. All harmony and order. When I see rhyme in a poem, I know I’m being lied to. Go ahead, laugh! It’s true–rhyme’s a completely bankrupt device. It’s just wishful thinking. Nostalgia.
Jeff Purcell
My suspicions were correct. Rhyme is considered “un-literary”. Still, reading Frost for his rhymes is a joy.
Wolff, Tobias. Old School. United States, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004. pp44
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