Comments on: What Poetry Can Not Say

By: Difficulty | Sherry Chandler

Difficulty | Sherry Chandler — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:15:42 +0000

[...] Peake on What Poetry Can Not Say: There are two kinds of difficulty, as I see it. On the one hand, we have difficulty as a way of [...]

By: JNagarya

JNagarya — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:33:09 +0000

We need poems composed in solitude.

“Complexity” and all the will rest take care of themselves — if one doesn’t write/pander — up or down — to/for one or another imaginary “audience” which only exists in one’s imagination.

All in all, we need less noise, less obfuscation, less BS. We need an absence of effort to impress oneself — and others so they’ll praise us.

The less said “about” the better.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:22:00 +0000

Thanks, Rachel. Good of you to stop by.

By: Rachel Fox

Rachel Fox — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:39:28 +0000

A good, fair and straightforward view on a subject that seems to cause so much angry (and really unnecessary) debate. We need ALL kinds of poetry – from the most easily comprehensible to the least – and the sooner poets understand that and stop slagging each other off the better, I think.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:35:08 +0000

Glad you got something out of this, Rebecca. Don’t be a stranger.

By: Rebecca Cantrell

Rebecca Cantrell — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:26:35 +0000

This is really cool. I’d never heard it explained so clearly before. There are some people who write simply in order to be commercially successful and some who write simply in order to be accessible. Simplicity is good so long as it helps the poem along. In the same way, so people write in an obscure style just to be hip or avant guard. If it doesn’t further the poem, it’s no good. Thanks Bob! I’d been wondering about that.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:10:14 +0000

p.s to say I have to give it to Pinsky for his appearance on the Colbert Report – not only a rare moment of pop culture embracing poetry – but a funny bit of shtick he pulled off, only bordering on corpsing once near the end:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9dtqYYnNvOo