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authorCase Duckworth2015-04-14 16:36:17 -0700
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2title: On formal poetry
3genre: verse
4
5id: onformalpoetry
6toc: "On formal poetry"
7
8project:
9 title: Elegies for alternate selves
10 class: elegies
11 order: 12
12 prev:
13 - title: Feeding the raven
14 link: feedingtheraven
15 next:
16 - title: I am
17 link: i-am
18...
19
20| I think that I could write formal poems
21| exclusively, or at least inclusive
22| with all the other stuff I write
23| I guess. Of course, I've already written
24| a few, this one included, though "formal"
25| is maybe a stretch. Is blank verse a form?
26| What is form anyway? I picture old
27| women counting [stitches on their knitting][knitting],
28| keeping iambs next to iambs in lines
29| as straight and sure as arrows. But my sock
30| is lumpy, poorly made: it's beginning
31| to unravel. Stresses don't line up. Syl-
32| lables forced to fit like [McNugget][] molds.
33| That cliché on the arrow? I'm aware.
34| My prepositions too---God, where's it stop?
35| The answer: never. I will never stop
36| writing poems, or hating what I write.
37
38[knitting]: roughgloves.html
39[McNugget]: ronaldmcdonald.html