Comments on: sasha’s asking questions. http://awfulpossibilities.com/archives/651 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:55:53 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://awfulpossibilities.com/archives/651/comment-page-1#comment-1140 admin Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:24:11 +0000 http://awfulpossibilities.com/?p=651#comment-1140 i hear you. i mean, i definitely don't like reading stuff without word music, but -- and i think i might be getting old or something -- i'm getting less and less out of "pure" word music. like, re: the dickinson poem at hand, i used to always dig dickinson, but i just treated her like she was making pretty noise. the more i taught her, the more i saw she was putting in there, and i felt like she deserved my efforts to read her right. this is as opposed to writers who just mean you to free associate or somesuch. i think literary types are generally far enough up their own asses that i don't want to give them anymore chances to do that. there's definitely a place for people who just write pretty stuff, but i'm really into event and always have been, violence and comedy especially. i'm just coming out with it now. i hear you. i mean, i definitely don’t like reading stuff without word music, but — and i think i might be getting old or something — i’m getting less and less out of “pure” word music. like, re: the dickinson poem at hand, i used to always dig dickinson, but i just treated her like she was making pretty noise. the more i taught her, the more i saw she was putting in there, and i felt like she deserved my efforts to read her right. this is as opposed to writers who just mean you to free associate or somesuch. i think literary types are generally far enough up their own asses that i don’t want to give them anymore chances to do that. there’s definitely a place for people who just write pretty stuff, but i’m really into event and always have been, violence and comedy especially. i’m just coming out with it now.

]]> By: Seany B http://awfulpossibilities.com/archives/651/comment-page-1#comment-1107 Seany B Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:35:38 +0000 http://awfulpossibilities.com/?p=651#comment-1107 "that poetry does not have a secret meaning, that there is not a single key that the initiated use to unlock a poem." Great stuff right there. I personally love the "word music" aspect. If Dickinson wanted everyone to be aware that the narrow fellow in the grass was a snake, maybe she would have written it. Or titled the poem the snake, like I believe it was first published as, much to her dismay. Have you ever loved a song so much only to actually listen to the words and find out that part of it sucks? I have and it's not a great feeling. Stay gold. “that poetry does not have a secret meaning, that there is not a single key that the initiated use to unlock a poem.”

Great stuff right there.

I personally love the “word music” aspect. If Dickinson wanted everyone to be aware that the narrow fellow in the grass was a snake, maybe she would have written it. Or titled the poem the snake, like I believe it was first published as, much to her dismay.
Have you ever loved a song so much only to actually listen to the words and find out that part of it sucks? I have and it’s not a great feeling.

Stay gold.

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