[stylist] my novel

[The Crowd]

I think I lost 12 chapters. Hard to believe but true. I think I might just 
retire.
Kind of think it is all pointlerss anyway.

Atty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 9:27 AM
Subject: [stylist] Reflections on Bill's poem and poetry in general


> Bill and others
>
> Bill- Your poem is one of the types of poetry that I can actually follow
> from start to finish. And you know --- as I thought that last sentence 
> out,
> and am putting the rest of this paragraph together, I am --- wondering 
> what
> is in my makeup that can make it so that some poetry I can stick with and
> feel that I can actually understand and perhaps even like? Mostly, I just
> don't get what poets are getting at! Bill's type of writing constructs 
> short
> phrases consisting of wording that is for me, clear and it doesn't like 
> hurt
> my brain to fathom. In saying that, I mean, I usually cannot
> follow-see-understand or like most poetry. Is it --- like taste, as in 
> what
> pleasures me? Is it a mind thing, as in that hard-wired ability to make
> mental connections which end up in the understanding of the world? Or is 
> it
> a reflection of my world experience; the nature - nurture thing and this 
> is
> the experience/nurture part of it which makes it so I get or cannot get 
> and
> like poetry? Like I know there really is a very serious human thing in the
> assents of the various forms of language be it spoken or sung or 
> written ---
> and yes, even in those other representative forms, like art as in 
> painting,
> sculpture, etc.  Yes, I'm wanting to like poetry.
>
> Another thought- to me, most song lyrics are like poetry; more
> representative than actual story-line or conversational. Usually it is the
> notes that move me, not the words.
>
> ..The house is quiet, I sit at the kitchen table, the rain patters on the
> roof, and I indulge in examination of me and life.
>
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
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