[New-Poetry] Goetsch's greed

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http://media.www.dailyiowan.com/media/storage/paper599/news/2007/07/17/Arts/On.The.Edge.Not.Of.The.Edge-2924347.shtml
On the edge, not of the edge
By: Julie Urbanek - The Daily Iowan
Posted: 7/17/07

Perplexing metaphors, incomprehensible allusions, that feeling of alienation: American poetry is notorious for its failure to appeal to the masses. 


"[Poetry] still has to give the reader pleasure; it has to compel rather than confuse," Douglas Goetsch said in describing his fellow American poets, who often work to create ambiguity. "I hope American poetry is done with the cult … It may be a mystery, but not a puzzle."


Teacher by day and writer by night, the unconventional poet invites readers into his work with a straightforward yet mystical style that doesn't require a literary genius to decode.


"It's greed," Goetsch said. "I want everyone who can possibly relate to my poem to be invited into it."

 

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