Re: Giving credit where credit is due...[New-Poetry]

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: : Poetry bores me. I'd rather that poets just made sense rather than taking poetic license. : To: Tony, : Perhaps you should contact Anthony. He appears to be bored also. Makes perfect sense to me! But, then again, I have taken "poetic license." : Robert : : : : : Elsewhere in LPT, within the section called "ART," you will find a sub-section called, "Poet's Lie." : : : I, as well as other poets, have some personal poetry to be found. Check it out! : : : The following comes from a review, of a review, of a review, with permission to be used for the purposes : : : of discussion here. The original source is a 1992 interview with Katharine Coles in_Weber Studies_. This is further : : : reviewed by Edward Byrne, as a review of the American poet, Mark Strand's_The Weather of Words_, in which he quotes Strand : : : from the original Coles' interview, speaking on this subject: : : : "American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. More so than other poetries. So the idea of 'the confessional' : : : was misguided from the beginning." He also speaks of "autobiographical poetry," seemingly suggesting it is very difficult for : : : poetry to be truly "autobiographical." Byrne quotes the following Strand comment in his review: "There's a certain point, where : : : you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. And, at least in : : : poetry, you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. If : : : you're writing autobiographically, there's something dictating the shape of the poem other than the imagination. You lose the freedom : : : to investigate."--Mark Strand, --Edward Byrne : : : Trust me on this, speaking for myself, poets do, sometimes at least, tell lies. It's called, "poetic license." : : : --Robert R. Cobb

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