Book Review: A Defense of Poetry
Oct. 1st, 2009 10:28 pmLong time, no see dreamwidth! School has started again and with it brings a lot of work. But I wanted to check back in again. I have lots of things I'd like to update about so hopefully I'll be around more often. Tonight I'll start with something a little different than what I usually gravitate towards.
As some of you know I'm taking a poetry class and this is a little out of the ordinary for me. For those who don't, I've written some poetry in the past and have read poetry before but my strong point is fiction writing. I've been wanting to take a poetry class, though, and decided to this semester.
The first book of poetry we read is A Defense of Poetry by Gabriel Gudding. It's a funny piece of work. Funny as in farts and rectums, which isn't exactly my idea of funny. There were a few poems that really caught my eye and after hearing some of the things my teacher had to say about another of Gudding's collections it sounds like something I might be interested in. But this particular collection wasn't my cup of tea.
As some of you know I'm taking a poetry class and this is a little out of the ordinary for me. For those who don't, I've written some poetry in the past and have read poetry before but my strong point is fiction writing. I've been wanting to take a poetry class, though, and decided to this semester.
The first book of poetry we read is A Defense of Poetry by Gabriel Gudding. It's a funny piece of work. Funny as in farts and rectums, which isn't exactly my idea of funny. There were a few poems that really caught my eye and after hearing some of the things my teacher had to say about another of Gudding's collections it sounds like something I might be interested in. But this particular collection wasn't my cup of tea.
