Reader’s Record: Poets Companion 1-13-10
Pg 22. “Poetry is an intimate act. It’s about bringing forth something that’s inside you- whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual”
This, so far, is one of my favorite definitions of poetry.
Pg25. “You don’t need to travel to exotic places or live through revolutions to write good poems…But don’t wait for something to happen before you begin to write; pay attention to the world around you, right now”
It is a very true statement that I felt was worth taking note of.
26. “I take vitamins-all the hard, football-shaped pills-sometimes they get stuck in my gullet and I panic and think what a modern way to die, they’ll come and find my dead, perfectly healthy body”
I choose this excerpt for its literary significance which convey comedy with irony. It personally appealed to me.
pg 27. “I see my therapist, my words fill up the room, the past is enormous, I steer towards anger and practice anger as if it were Italian, I throw stones at the canyon and yell and sometimes a clump of shale falls down and a spider races out”
I enjoyed the travel of visual experiences; starting from the narrators everyday perspective moving into a sort of day dream.
pg28. “As the minutes of your own life open and fall, catch them in poems. You’ve been given one life, one set of unique experiences;”
This applies not only in poetry but in meaning and indoctrination.
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