02-22-2013, 11:36 PM
Despite it all, I'm more interested in people and atmosphere than words. The philosophy, psychology and sometimes even religion of a poem or story or whatever. I'm more interested in a body of work than individual poems. In what a man or woman, or sometimes man-woman, or thing, is saying about things. As far as style and form and good and bad art come into that, I'm interested. Plenty people know how to make that call. It seems that many poems are good because other people say they are, even though I don't think so, and so I have to say "Well, that's what good can look like."
Most of the time I settle to have my poems feel to me like extensions of myself and other people and things I know of. So they're usually crude, awkward and bent; even if I spend weeks making them that way. And considering that a lot of my stories are about the mundane, everyday lives of mutants and abominations, I think that it makes sense philosophically.
But I never feel settled, I always feel them gnawing at me for various reasons.
But I'm sure nobody's interested in my bastard accounts of style and technique.
Most of the time I settle to have my poems feel to me like extensions of myself and other people and things I know of. So they're usually crude, awkward and bent; even if I spend weeks making them that way. And considering that a lot of my stories are about the mundane, everyday lives of mutants and abominations, I think that it makes sense philosophically.
But I never feel settled, I always feel them gnawing at me for various reasons.
But I'm sure nobody's interested in my bastard accounts of style and technique.