writing worth a shit

[Truerenigma]

90% of cummings fruitcakiness added nothing to the actual poem other than novelty - the poems were of equal value without it. Still, it did make him famous which at least gained him a broader audience for what was good - some of which was very good.

Right. Email it in today and they would just delete the "typo'd" ungrammatical and unneeded adverb and publish without it.

anyone who did it today would just be a "copycat".

In this paradigm he hadn't already more existed. Anyway there are others that have already taken the experimentation much more furtherest so while I am wronger you are wrong and I only said that in hopes of a vigorous debacle er.. debate anyway

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It doesn't matter if people disagree with me. I feel this way. I feel that personality and the joys and sufferings, pleasures and sicknesses of the writer and the artist is part of the experience. Sometimes those things can't be known, but they add something when they are known. I don't think it would be better if all books were published anonymously like some literary critics have said.
Here I'm talking about the reader's experience.

And obviously the writer's work is affected by the person they are; even if they're a person that is good at hiding their personality.

It's not that I disagree with you. It's just that don't have an opinion any more than I might hazard a guess at how many stars there are. Unless maybe I was writing a poem - but that wouldn't mean I actually thought there were that many stars - the imagination is funny like that.

I would like to add that I don't believe that all poets must be limited even by their own knowledge or experience. Two things that come to mind as possibly invaluable tools and examples of unknown quantities are empathy for the emotional camp and talent in the intellectual and cognition camp, or both in both.

Personally I both enjoy and don't enjoy such a wide range of poetry by poets of such a wide range of opinions and experience that it hardly matters to me. I care about people and I care about art. I'm interested in both. But I rarely read the bios. I don't know if the two are inseparable but I do know they are not the same thing. When I look at my daughter I do not see the Mona Lisa - though when I look at the Mona Lisa I might see her.