Im on my tablet, so I cant copy the rules. Claire Trévien tagged me, so read what she wrote, apply the introduction to me. :-) Here they are: 1) TS Eliot broke me out of the idea that poetey must be pretty to be beautiful. An early, vital lesson 2) Dante. You can think abut God without thinking about the Bible. 3) Milton, ditto. Also, fun with Satan. 4) Robertson Jeffers showed me what a line can do, and that a poem can seem to be about one thing and really be about another. 5) Piers Anthony wrote me back when I was twelve. I sent him a poem, he said it was good. His fantasy work let me escape, when I was young enough to need escape. 6) George Szirtes wrote acrostics, taught me about form, gave me permission to use and play with both. Not literally, through his work, but in a vital way. 7) Tiffany Atkinson taught me that a woman can be a great poet and live. 8) Helen Ivory reinforced that lesson. 9) Carl Jung. 10) Robertson Davies, complexity is good. 11) Charlotte Bronte, the pathetic fallacy can work sometimes, the heroine marries the wrong man - and he is the right man. 12) Seamus Heaney. 13) Toni Morrison. Beloved. 14) W B Yeats, myths renew themselves through the writers who use them. The users are used. 15) Margaret Atwood. Forgive typos. Im on my tablet and I purposfully wrote quickly and sans thought.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:57:45 +0000
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