Is all modern poetry confessional? Rather, is the majority of modern attempts at poetry aimed that way, is that why so much of it falls flat?
The defining "world tragedy" moment of my youth was the Challenger disaster; I wept and grieved and ached for days. And then I had to read newspapers and school publishings and literary magazines that all printed poems written by people similarly wracked with grief for Challenger, and they. Were. DRECK. Pure dreck. I laughed, actually laughed out loud that people would print this s**t. That might have been the day I understood that grief does not make one a poet.
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Date: 2010-03-29 02:37 pm (UTC)The defining "world tragedy" moment of my youth was the Challenger disaster; I wept and grieved and ached for days. And then I had to read newspapers and school publishings and literary magazines that all printed poems written by people similarly wracked with grief for Challenger, and they. Were. DRECK. Pure dreck. I laughed, actually laughed out loud that people would print this s**t. That might have been the day I understood that grief does not make one a poet.