I’ve written many times that poetry is not my GoTo although I love a good poem. Show me the works of Dickey, Frost, Eiseley, Poe, Tolson, Hughes, Cummings, Toomer, … and I’m gone, gone, gone.
So, of course, I had to take a poetry class.
In this first workshop we read several pieces, one of which was Jean Toomer‘s Becky.
It influenced me greatly, and as Dorothea Brande would wrote in Becoming a Writer, I was poorly influenced.
Let me tell you how it was
When all those men came down to look on me
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There is a joy in knowing something sucks.
Means you can fix it.
But that’s for another class.
Read the second class’ meanderings.
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