I do not like a recent poem (cross-posted)


I do not like the poem “state house fairground,” even though I know it is quite good. I cannot tell you why I do not like it. I know intellectually that it is masterful. I had great difficulty writing it, because it has too many layers and complex twisted meanings that I do not think most people will catch. I had trouble keeping it all in my head. I just cannot get away from poems that demand too much from the reader. It takes a PhD in literature to understand this poem. Specifically, a someone with a PhD who is able to read the current political situation and how it compares to history and how poetry has historically addressed such things. See? Too much. I am never going to be a published poet demanding so much.

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