conversation
by thepoetblue
Posted to Action Poetry on 2001-06-26 18:53:00
Parent message is 16062
great ani difranco quote
i don’t mean to compare this modern vein of with that of SP, who I hold in great esteem. i simply find attempts at confessional poetry in contemporary writing to fall very far short of the likes of SP and Sexton and their contemporaries. it tends to not have the depth, the honesty, the intelligence of those great poets and yet, i feel like poetry editors embrace anything confessional just because its confessional, not taking into concern other qualities/deficiencies.
something else that happens as time goes by and one era leads into the next is that old forms slowly become die – they are overused and overrun and when writers and readers finally tire of them, revolution occurs. it was that very revolution that ushered in the romantics, the victorians, the modernists, the confessionals, the beats, etc.
i guess i see this as a time when the confessional form of poetry is dying – however whatever replaces it – wherever we as poets are driving the form to – will have the stamp of confessional poetry all over it.