Reality in poetry

[rayheinrich]

if there were fiction and non-fiction categories in poetry like there is in prose, i'd always list mine under non-fiction, simply because i like to lie a lot.
we have no way on knowing if a poem is either or bits of both. okay, so sexton/plath as well as others were suicidal, they obviously put themselves in their works but how much? how much was fiction in order to get the thing out? it's all fiction to me, the fiction i enjoy the most is the believable fiction.

    Yes, believable fiction is my fav as well. I have spent my entire life trying to construct one for myself.
    Every once in a while blood gets in the way, but that's what bandages are for.