07-13-2016, 11:34 PM
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To be clear, I'm not saying that I'm speaking the Truth, I just grew up in that and I'm having a hard time convincing myself that I can bend reality a little bit for my own purposes. Sorry, I wasn't very clear about that.
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Ha! Whoever spoke the Truth?
I'm a fan of nonfiction, so my poetry tends to move in that direction. I find myself distracted by fiction, constantly thinking, 'O.K. This is all bull shit, so who cares?' But the deeper value is in how the threads of a narrative or stanza are woven together to make a brilliantly told story.
Here's the question as I see it. Do you care more about accuracy or entertainment? For poetry as a genre, authors tend towards the latter; poetry is more concerned with the art of writing than fact checking lines.
So I'm working on the yarn.
To be clear, I'm not saying that I'm speaking the Truth, I just grew up in that and I'm having a hard time convincing myself that I can bend reality a little bit for my own purposes. Sorry, I wasn't very clear about that.
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Ha! Whoever spoke the Truth?
I'm a fan of nonfiction, so my poetry tends to move in that direction. I find myself distracted by fiction, constantly thinking, 'O.K. This is all bull shit, so who cares?' But the deeper value is in how the threads of a narrative or stanza are woven together to make a brilliantly told story.
Here's the question as I see it. Do you care more about accuracy or entertainment? For poetry as a genre, authors tend towards the latter; poetry is more concerned with the art of writing than fact checking lines.
So I'm working on the yarn.
Thanks to this Forum
