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14008239 No.14008239 [Reply] [Original]

>Do I REALLY need to read more poems than I write?
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Also, do I need to read more poems than I write?

>> No.14008242

Yes

>> No.14008340

Yeah, but it's not like that's hard. It's worse to read and write at a 100:1 ratio or more, in my opinion. Don't get completely absorbed in the tendency to think you can't write unless you've read everything.

>> No.14008445

>>14008340
I have a hard time finding poetry I connect with. I enjoy Ezra Pound’s work, partly because he’s such a fascinating person to begin with.

>> No.14008546

>>14008445
A lot of poetry is terrible, especially contemporary. I still read Poetry magazine and The Paris Review to keep my finger on the pulse of what is getting published these days.

I sympathize with that, my advice to everyone else trying to get more into poetry is to do a scattershot survey of different poets and time periods initially. Try to find styles that interest you, abandon ones that don't after a few poems (in this phase). It was actually some really great contemporary poetry that got me started and then made me curious about the tradition and transformation of it, when I had previously dismissed stuff like Yeats or Wordsworth.