Read Your Own poetry
Submitted by mwilliams on Fri, 2007-07-06 17:12.After expounding the benefits of poetry readings, this poet says we should just read the poems ourselves. Well, I don’t think he understands his audience very well.
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He likes the money, he likes the attention, but he doesn’t have a clue about his listeners. If you listen to ten different performances of a single piece of music, you do get ten different interpretations; ditto for poetry, but isn’t this precisely the point?