"Original exploration of the craft alone expresses a poet's individual soul and conscience" (p. 178, from Ginsberg's Journals: Mid-Fifties 1954-1958). I agree, Ginsberg! I've spent all of my time until recently exploring poetry alone and have stumbled into my "style" without realizing my cosmic influences, or who it was that paved the way for my eccentricities. However, I feel that because I chose to leave my official English studies after my B.S. that I know nothing of styles, movements, criticisms, all the nuances the literary types pride themselves on (see, here I go, ending sentences with preopositions). But I have always read like reading was a drug, and I learn well on my own. The problem is making the time. I've loved you, A.G., since my college boyfriend allowed that I could have your book of collected poems after the breakup because I loved it more. And from you--stylistically--I stole the & and your habit of time, date, and pl...
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