I struggled for a while. But it is a great salve. Tagged as: Brené Brown, guest blog post, Medium magazine, Rebecca M. Roach, why people hate poetry, I was very lucky as a young poet to listen to people talk about my work. Non-poets, who generally don’t read poetry, are only a little less enthusiastic than poets, who do. Any suggestions where to find these? I think the one greatest shortcoming of poetry in general is the flat speaking when reciting it. The contempt is easy enough to understand—poetry is unprestigious, unremunerative, a form of play rather than grown-up work. Some of my favorites are Sugar House Review, Stirring, Quarterly West, Tin House, Baltimore Review, Ninth Letter, New England Review, Kore Press, etc. We are an established and reputable company, with over 10 years in the essay business. The latter often regard the former with a blend of contempt and envy. Cody Delistraty: You write, “The fatal problem with poetry: poems.” How do poems get in the way of poetry? This jeopardizes connection with the poem, robbing a reader's enjoyment of its discussion. I, myself, do not actively go out of my way to produce rhymes, nor do I actively try to avoid them. She now envisions a world in which poetry is not a “creative opportunity,” but a way of life–and not just for poets, but for everyone. I dislike that well written poetry can seem so poorly done and poorly done poetry can feel so gripping. Cody Delistraty: You write, “The fatal problem with poetry: poems.”How do poems get in the way of poetry? C.D. BL: Well any writer is always exploring how the historical resources of a genre can be bent to contemporary exigencies, right? And there are of course other kinds of poetic accomplishment that have nothing to do with the kind of logic I’m exploring. CD: Does this have to do with why poetry is often perceived as elitist? “It’s not much,” says Lerner as readers peek around the door frame, echoing Marianne Moore’s famous poem-hating poem of the same name: “I, too, dislike it. (The writer Michael Clune taught me to see this in Keats.) I don't know, I guess. The poet' is therefore both an embarrassment and an accusation. Here are five main reasons (and corresponding suggestions) I can identify--and one big, hairy commonality between them. Either that's not a good student or you're not a good educator. Do you love them? BL: For me the great resource of the novel is how it manages to describe the way emerging technologies alter social relations. Wright—who I miss more than I can say—has two new books I keep rereading with gratitude and sadness. It bled a lot. My ultimate reason to read poetry is simply to enjoy it. Yet he also suggests that the poem’s very badness is its virtue: “A less bad poet would not make the distance between the virtual and the actual so palpable, so immediate,” he writes. If the foundation for learning poetry is not thought of as critical, but largely superfluous--a "nice to have"--is there really any wonder why students feel it's permissible to just pass and move on? Poetry is the best way I know of to admit, "yeah, I'm pretty messed up, and that's okay." When it comes to poetry, here are some common things people say: -- It's elitist, snobbish, stuck-up, or exclusive. Indeed, hardly a year has gone by over the past quarter century without a poet or critic publishing an essay bemoaning the state of American poetry—from Dana Gioia’s “Can Poetry Matter?,” which appeared in this magazine in 1991, to Mark Edmundson’s 2013 lament, “Poetry Slam: Or, the Decline of American Verse.” And the sentiment dates back further. BL: Yeah, exactly. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. People actively avoid poetry. Lerner’s previous book, the novel 10:04, was saturated in the Benjaminian concept of redemption: the idea that the world as we know it carries within itself the possibility for transformation. If it doesn't do anything for you, though, it's really OK. Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is lovely because it puts so quietly the raucous difficulty of having to come to terms with competing desires, choose between unknowns, and reconcile our limitations. And Adam Gordon doesn’t find that dull. (i.e. I also hate it when the words come out forced and it just looks like the poet/author just took out a thesaurus and used whatever words sounded intelligent. I like free verse. In reading poetry, you really have to take the time to read each piece for it's own merits and the context of it's author. If you think that poems should be at once individual and socially universal and you feel excluded from a poem, then you might feel like your humanity is being threatened. People understand poems differently. The film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is set in 1779 in the 43rd year of Emperor Qianlong reign. But I agree with you that the story / meaning should not be spoon fed to the reader. And I think negative spaces and felt silences are a constitutive part of the art. Hate can turn us against someone. But when we close off conversations, when we keep our shame under tight internal wraps, we lose our vulnerability -- and with it, the very source of the greatest things in life: empathy, joy, love, happiness, creativity, and innovation. Through that experience, and through an introduction to open innovation, entrepreneurship, and the worlds of business, programming, and design, she stumbled upon a new direction: to leverage technology for the sake of helping poets thrive at what they do. I love free and creative writing. Poetry is the site and source of disappointed hope. That's so beautiful, and we would all do well to learn from each other. CD: A quote from The Hatred of Poetry: “Great poets disdain the limits of actual poems, tactically defeat or at least suspend that actuality and sometimes quit writing all together, becoming celebrated for their silence.” Is the greatest poem no poem? I believe we should teach classics, but question why we do--question the poems themselves, treating them as living arguments. You may enjoy an easy climb for a while, but you may also find that you want a bigger challenge. The first thing I like about poetry is the interaction of rhythm and sound texture and the vocabulary that makes this possible.
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