[New-Poetry] bob's art for art's sake

[Suzanne Burns]

On 1/5/07, TheOldMole <tad at opus40.org> wrote:
>
> Marilyn Nelson put this nicely to a student once, who complained, "I don't
> get what this poem is about."
>
> "Did you go home for Thanksgiving? See your family?"
>
> "Yes."
>
> "What's your mother about?"



Ha!  I could see here saying that!  But of course I could answer that with
many paragraphs about what my high-spirited Italian mother  is about-- as a
writer though, I would never presume that the reader already knows what I
know, and that of course is the point when someone says "I don't know what
this is about."

I digress....

:-)

Suzanne
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