This whole semester I’ve been in a poetry class with poets dealing with poetry and I have no idea what’s going on at any point in time. As a prose writer I’m used to being able to point at something and say “This is or isn’t working for me for xyz reasons” but the poets are using words like lineation and syntax and enjambment and kinda floating around giving any concrete opinions. Do my poems suck ass or not? I’m so confused.
When poets take fiction courses they tell me that they’re confused by how structured the workshop is and I get why now. It’s a really weird form of anarchy in there where everyone reads poems by making their voice go down at the end of every line. I feel like I’m gonna float away like a balloon. Where am I? I think after this semester I’m gonna go back to just the fiction workshops and the set format. Everyone says what’s working well, everyone gives advice for potential improvement. I think I’m more in my element there.
The poets are fun to hang out with though. It’s funny to watch them stress out over having to write an entire page of words. They don’t know what to do with themselves when they have to write prose. They’re so caught up in making everything sound pretty that at times their prose becomes so jam packed with pretty language and metaphor that it’s nearly unreadable and I love them for that.I thought I had a relatively large vocabulary before I took this class. Apparently not. Apparently poets get access to some secret third layer of English that’s full of very specific words that your average person can’t remember or conceive of after they look at them.
*holds a reporters microphone up to you*
How do you feel about me not using any enjambment here?
(via ican-fixitbooks)

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