[New-Poetry] Goetsch's greed

[TheOldMole]

"I want everyone who can possibly relate to my poem to be invited into it."

Yeah, me too. But I don't necessarily write thinking "what will the 
greatest number of people relate to it?" I'm satisfied if I can fill up 
a stateroom, like the Marx Brothers.

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> 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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