Archive for November 19th, 2008

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Goosing the Golden Gimmick: Matthea Harvey’s Abecedarianism

One of the most common pieces of advice given to poets is to avoid self-consciousness—to carefully partition the artifice from the art, to hide the crafting from the crafted. And it’s good advice. The pleasure and insight we receive from poetry comes from our ability to enter it, to suspend our disbelief and [...]

No Comments » - Posted in poetic mumbo-jumbo by Tim