Has your consideration of poetry changed since you began?
I started writing poetry in high school (some 30 years ago) and at the time, and through my 20s and 30s, I was trying to be witty and clever. Only in the last 5 years, or so, have I really started searching my gut to see what needs to be written. I’ve been mining childhood and young adult trauma, analyzing my life choices and reactions, and writing earnestly about that. I still long to be considered clever and witty, but I’m feeling the pull to become more honest about my feelings, and fears, and about my damage and record it. The pull comes as a sort of therapy and healing as well as having an honest conversation with my wife, my sons, and my beloved friends. My time here is limited and it’s time to start talking about real life and not trying to be a literary wise-ass.
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