Comments on: A Lifetime Of Preferring Not To http://shortpoem.org/a-lifetime-of-preferring-not-to/ if compression is the first grace of style Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Neal Whitman http://shortpoem.org/a-lifetime-of-preferring-not-to/comment-page-1/#comment-686 Neal Whitman Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:52:20 +0000 http://shortpoem.org/?p=1130#comment-686 Dear Frances, So good to see you posting a comment. Soon, a poem? More please. Amicus poeticae, Neal Whitman Dear Frances,
So good to see you posting a comment. Soon, a poem? More please.

Amicus poeticae,

Neal Whitman

]]> By: frances shaffi http://shortpoem.org/a-lifetime-of-preferring-not-to/comment-page-1/#comment-675 frances shaffi Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:22:52 +0000 http://shortpoem.org/?p=1130#comment-675 Kay Ryan's essay? critique? was long and I found repetitive although I so admire her aversion to the coercion suggested by "conferences". Kay Ryan’s essay? critique? was long and I found repetitive although I so admire her aversion to the coercion suggested by “conferences”.

]]> By: Rhonda http://shortpoem.org/a-lifetime-of-preferring-not-to/comment-page-1/#comment-667 Rhonda Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:30:25 +0000 http://shortpoem.org/?p=1130#comment-667 After reading the essay I thought, with relief, "Oh God. I can relax and just write." After reading the essay I thought, with relief, “Oh God. I can relax and just write.”

]]> By: Neal Whitman http://shortpoem.org/a-lifetime-of-preferring-not-to/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Neal Whitman Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:18:05 +0000 http://shortpoem.org/?p=1130#comment-663 An old debate: Can poets write prose; prose writers, poetry? Not the stuff of the 1950s and 60s "two worlds" Art vs. Science debate, but still lively dinner chatter. Kay Ryan CAN write: poetry AND prose. In poetry, I look for the person-poet in it. Alas, not to be found in too much contemporary (contempt?) poetry. In her writing, poetry and now, as I have discovered in her essay, her prose, I can find HER. The glory of her essay: I could look at the AWP through her eyes. Most of the comments posted on Poetry Foundation –– gibberish! Oh, oh. Me too, here? Amicus poeticae, Neal Whitman An old debate: Can poets write prose; prose writers, poetry? Not the stuff of the 1950s and 60s “two worlds” Art vs. Science debate, but still lively dinner chatter. Kay Ryan CAN write: poetry AND prose. In poetry, I look for the person-poet in it. Alas, not to be found in too much contemporary (contempt?) poetry. In her writing, poetry and now, as I have discovered in her essay, her prose, I can find HER. The glory of her essay: I could look at the AWP through her eyes. Most of the comments posted on Poetry Foundation –– gibberish! Oh, oh. Me too, here?

Amicus poeticae,

Neal Whitman

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