http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/05/the-cat%e2%80%99s-got-the-poet%e2%80%99s-tongue/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/05/the-cat%e2%80%99s-got-the-poet%e2%80%99s-tongue/#comment-3671 Suzanne Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:51:42 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=851#comment-3671 Ok... I am completely jealous that poems are kerplopping out of you, but glad because I love to read your work. This Big Fake World is amazing! And the unborn child metaphor is very close to one I have been contemplating myself lately, while hitting the proverbial snooze!--the pregnancy metaphor: When I write well, I DO experience the flush of creativity that new mothers say they feel. I would even compare the completion of major projects to childbirth itself--and each poem to the items on a checklist in preparation: Paint nursery; assemble crib; write thank-yous for shower gifts. And sending poems out for publication is a bit like sending children off to school. "Is this the day my child will be recognized?" Acceptance feels like "my child is on the honor roll," and rejection like his/her afternoon detention. We love them all, even if not always unconditionally, even when we don't know exactly what's wrong with them. Ok… I am completely jealous that poems are kerplopping out of you, but glad because I love to read your work. This Big Fake World is amazing!
And the unborn child metaphor is very close to one I have been contemplating myself lately, while hitting the proverbial snooze!–the pregnancy metaphor: When I write well, I DO experience the flush of creativity that new mothers say they feel. I would even compare the completion of major projects to childbirth itself–and each poem to the items on a checklist in preparation: Paint nursery; assemble crib; write thank-yous for shower gifts. And sending poems out for publication is a bit like sending children off to school. “Is this the day my child will be recognized?” Acceptance feels like “my child is on the honor roll,” and rejection like his/her afternoon detention. We love them all, even if not always unconditionally, even when we don’t know exactly what’s wrong with them.
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/05/the-cat%e2%80%99s-got-the-poet%e2%80%99s-tongue/#comment-3670 Linh Dinh Fri, 30 May 2008 16:31:12 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=851#comment-3670 Hi Ada, When a poem is demanding to be written, nothing else matters! Hi Ada,
When a poem is demanding to be written, nothing else matters!
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