tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26688050.post195854151218083206..comments2023-04-27T04:52:24.073-06:00Comments on Dialectical Migrations: Sherylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15714880589297494206noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26688050.post-58985686830587876152013-03-24T20:49:58.960-06:002013-03-24T20:49:58.960-06:00Really interesting post, Sheryl. I can't find ...Really interesting post, Sheryl. I can't find any reason to entertain Gluck's theory: it sounds to me like over-thought academic posturing. I (I I I) think when people get to a certain point in/with poetry, they start to work so hard to break away from it, from themselves, that they start exploring artistic possibility with an almost clinical aesthetic, resulting in something as sterile as the idea that the poetic "I" is corrupt. <br /><br />I (I I I) mean what is more vital, important, meaningful, impacting, and braver than asserting something, yourself, your "I" into the void? Reducing, or rather, limiting this possibility and ultimately, this power, subverts and suppresses the human spirit. And if this spirit is a spirit that's healing, as most of us are in some capacity (since we all are constantly being wounded and trying to recover) then I would argue that I want to hear this "I" and not focus on decoding the byproduct of a workaround. <br /><br />I've been reading a ton of Jack Myers lately. Certainly could be classified as a "confessional" poet by cool edgy, experimental types, but he rips into my core, and from his "I" my "I" learns more about myself and others than I ever could from some detached narrator who's trying so hard to lose his or her self. <br /><br />I must admit, it's an interesting notion, and a worthy challenge--I can barely write a poem without an "I," and I appreciate the idea that the poet, the artist is pushing outside of his or her self, constantly, but so much poetry has become undecipherable because poets are scared to insert themselves into the poem less they might be seen as weak or confessional. <br /><br />At the end of the day, I'll take poetic truth however it arrives, and I try not to limit myself to thinking that one modality is superior to any other. If anything, the element of surprise and unknowing is most essential. I never want to think that I or any one else has it ALL figured out, and suggesting that we drop our "I" seems to put the whole enterprise at risk!<br /><br />-MartinMartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09705387838201243837noreply@blogger.com