11-10-2010, 12:57 AM
If you had to define your work as belonging to a certain poetic movement (modernism, imagism, Romanticism etc.), which one would it be?
For years I've seen myself as a confessional poet - I've written hundreds of free verse poems about intimate subjects, like mental illness and masturbation - but lately I've been leaning towards a thematically simpler yet more technically refined imagism.
For years I've seen myself as a confessional poet - I've written hundreds of free verse poems about intimate subjects, like mental illness and masturbation - but lately I've been leaning towards a thematically simpler yet more technically refined imagism.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe