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Response to Am I totally self-centered or does no one else's poetry make sense to me?

from Mike Billard (mbillard@worldnet.att.net)
Todd,

When you say "read someone else's poetry" exactly who do you mean? Are you talking about friends, or people on the newsgroups, or established, published poets like Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, etc.? I ask because making a poem "accessible" is a difficult task, and if you're reading other amateur poets then the problem might lie in the poem itself. This is not to say that established poets won't write poems that are inaccessible as well, they do. I'd just like to know more about what poems you are reading and what it is you expect to gain from reading these poems. I doubt greatly that you are narcissistic, I think it's just the way you are approaching the poems, and maybe the poems you're reading. E-mail me, if you'd like, and we can discuss it.

Mike

(posted 9407 days ago)

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