Archive for June, 2011
Confessions of a Poetry Dunce
Literary scholars talk about various kinds of poetry — Romantic, modernist — but for me poetry falls largely into these categories: (1) The Head-Slappingly Obvious and (2) What in God’s Name Are You Saying? Here is a not-untypical example of my experiences with poetry: For Christmas my younger daughter, knowing my musical tastes as she [...]
