If You're Really, Really Bored . . .

[ursula]

. . . You can go read my poetry and vote on which ones I should submit to the English department's contest.

Alternatively, you can vote on which ones you hate. I will probably agree with your criticism.

Comments

[kid-prufrock.livejournal.com]

I am not a good critic; I lack sophistication and have an imperfect ear for poetry.

That said, my favorites are probably "After Galatea" (was that in a Small Craft Warnings? I can't remember), "Fucking Easy," and "July." "Literary" is wonderful but already published; "Enlightenment" is clever and has a terrific last line but its images stray dangerously close to caricature.

[ursula]

"Enlightenment" is high school poetry, actually-- I have it up because it's a fairly good statement of . . . intellectual allegiance, maybe.

I could take "Literary", since I'm choosing for contest entries, not for Small Craft Warnings. (The obvious policy there is to submit almost everything.) I worry, though, that too many of the jokes are Swat-specific.