10-11-2020, 04:53 PM
Sorry, I stan her so much, so, yeah xD
Her collection of stuff from 1962-2012 has had a big impact on me. Having her be recommended to me, probably by this very site too, I would not be hard-pressed to say got me into being a better poet. Her style is....hard to replicate tbh, it's very particular, and the way it's particular means that at a certain point the collection becomes rather weak. She's almost, idk, solipsistic in her interests -- the speakers she adopts often feel very particular, very personal, very confessional -- but her sparseness, her hard-to-replicate style, the way the simplest of sayings sharpen to a point when she makes use of them, letting ooze meaning from whatever topic she chooses to pierce, launches her confessional mode from the drudges of contemporary half-imagistic half-"plainspoken" mishmash (sorry, Plath) to the sublime. I am elated, and I might just spam her poetry in PotD because of it....okay I probably won't lol.
Her collection of stuff from 1962-2012 has had a big impact on me. Having her be recommended to me, probably by this very site too, I would not be hard-pressed to say got me into being a better poet. Her style is....hard to replicate tbh, it's very particular, and the way it's particular means that at a certain point the collection becomes rather weak. She's almost, idk, solipsistic in her interests -- the speakers she adopts often feel very particular, very personal, very confessional -- but her sparseness, her hard-to-replicate style, the way the simplest of sayings sharpen to a point when she makes use of them, letting ooze meaning from whatever topic she chooses to pierce, launches her confessional mode from the drudges of contemporary half-imagistic half-"plainspoken" mishmash (sorry, Plath) to the sublime. I am elated, and I might just spam her poetry in PotD because of it....okay I probably won't lol.