Calm down everyone! Oh my GOD! I know my thousands of loyal readers, waiting at the edge of their keyboards for my week six installment of this blog were horribly disappointed last week. But it was fall break puppies, come on.
Anyway stop calling, jammin up my voice mail with your pleads, Im back. And you bet your sweet asses, I'm ready to discuss Creative Writing Communities.
Let me roll up my sleeves. Ahem. Wait for it...
I began reading Joshua Beckman's book Shake this week and it is a change of gears from Tracy K. Smith. We discussed in class today how Beckman literally makes his own books, which is both respectfully awesome, and like, oh come on, Josh, really? We spent so much time discussing the idea of consumerism, lit for profit/ lit for art, Beckman's education, his cute lil' books, we didn't even get to the poems, which is not our classes fault. Oh no. We are not ones to get side tracked. The fault is yours, Josh. If you had just published from some normal non-conversation starting press we could have actually focused on your poetry. So there.
No but seriously I haven't read any poems. Every time I try to open the book I end up staring blankly at the cover and running my fingers over the pretty paper.
Expect another post soon. When I make it to page one ;)
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