[New-Poetry] Art of Finding, Linda Gregg's essay

[Bob Grumman]

  On 12/19/06, TheOldMole <tad at opus40.org> wrote:
    I have to say it didn't do anything for me, and I went to it with high expectations.


  I just read it and I feel the same.  Maybe it is just me, but I really don't think this essay is saying much that is very original.

  Example: "The art of finding in poetry is the art of marrying the sacred to the world, the invisible to the human."   Translating this from Gregg-speak and her love of such words as "marry", "sacred" and "invisible",  what is actually being said here?  

  "Marrying the sacred to the world"  sounds to me kind of like saying "what I want to say about the world, my experience in it, and my feelings which are very spiritual";  "the invisible to the human"  is sounds like just another way of saying "express your abstract ideas or feelings using concrete details that you see in the world."  

  This is the sort of bland statement I would expect to hear in a Poetry 101 class.  

  Suzanne



  Sorta like saying, "Make your poems meaningful."  Hey, great idea, I'll go do it right away!

  --Bob G.
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