Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Tuesday

Vow today upon a stack of all you find holy never to say "it's basically saying" again in your life.

A commentary is not about what a poem "basically says" but about all the poem suggests during the process of the reading experience and then all it suggests in its totality after reading -- and it must be done with an emphasis on craft: HOW does it do that suggesting?

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