[stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Star in the Throat, Fire in the Cupboard by Catie Rosemurgy
Bridgit Pollpeter
bpollpeter at hotmail.com
Thu May 1 19:42:30 UTC 2014
Usually the creator knows the audience they are targeting. Typically,
you know how to create for that audience. If your target audience isn't
getting it though, then the creator needs to revisit the work and see
where they can make fixes and resolutions.
As writers, we usually know if we are writing for a general audience,
young adult, genre, etc. When our audience goal isn't understanding or
liking our work, we need to revise and edit. Sometimes, it means
starting from square one.
Ultimately, whatever the art, the audience is king. As writers, we write
to inform, to entertain, to move emotionally, to educate-- and if intent
is not coming across, it's our job to listen to our intended audience.
Many writers struggle with this, yours truly included, smile.
Bridgit
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 9:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Star in the Throat,Fire in the
Cupboard by Catie Rosemurgy
You have a point and it is well taken ... until I forget again. LOL! But
how frustrating must it be for a writer -- or painter, composer,
lyricist, ... -- if they haven't found that right audience that their
work speaks to? How do you find that right audience? Barbara
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> On Apr 30, 2014, at 7:03 PM, "Bridgit Pollpeter"
> <bpollpeter at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> But there's also a target audience. Not everything written is for
> every audience. This doesn't necessarily render the work, or creator,
> wrong or allusive.
>
> And you know how some music just moves you, sparks a mood even if you
> don't pay direct attention to lyrics or know what the creator was
> thinking during the composition The written word can act in this way
> too, especially with poetry. Sometimes we search to much for meaning
> when what we need to do is sit back and tap into our emotions.
>
> I think it was Chris who said that some poetry just ignites something
> in him even if he doesn't get it or misinterprets it. I like this.
>
> Bridgit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
> Hammel
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Star in the Throat,Fire in the
> Cupboard by Catie Rosemurgy
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>
> I would agree with you. If it has to be explained, then the work of
> art
>
> misses the point. I think that type of art is like the emperor's set
> of
>
> clothes. Everyone just says they like them to be polite, meanwhile
> they are thinking "what in the world was that?"
> Barbara
>
>
>
>
> Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert
> Frost -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacobson, Shawn D
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Star in the Throat, Fire in the
> Cupboard by Catie Rosemurgy
>
> You're right that the imagery is interesting but the meaning of the
> poem is obscure.
>
> My problem with poems that need to be explained is akin to my problem
> with jokes where the punch line has to be explained, it isn't complete
> in itself.
>
> Shawn
>
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> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jackie
> Williams
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:47 PM
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> Subject: [stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Star in the Throat, Fire in the
> Cupboard
> by Catie Rosemurgy
>
> Bridgit,
> Here is a sample of a poem I received today, that without the author's
> note, I could get little meaning. I read for meaning, and you like the
> metaphors
> and word choices. I like that also, once I have a clue about the
> content.
> Curious about your reaction to this. There are many similar instances,
> as I
> read each one each day and sweat over many. Often I will not read the
> authors note until after the sweating. Sometimes I just give up, and
> then
> read it.
>
> Jackie Lee
>
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz
>
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> in the Throat, Fire in the Cupboard
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> Catie Rosemurgy
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> When I was young, I hid under the porch with a star in my throat. When
> I got a little older, my mother opened the cupboard to let the fire
> out.
>
> I should've known the cliffs meant a coming blankness.
> We should've noticed the competition growing deadly between the
> masts and the trees.
> The problem wasn't the lateness of our parties but what we used for
wood
> to
> keep them lit.
>
> What is it people say-take my arm and walk with me along the shore for
> a minute?
>
> My mother, bless her, is a speck of color in the flush of a great
> cheek. I've come to ask you to consider praying for that giant child.
>
> Remember when we began to forget the babies once we tossed them in the
> air?
> First it was the completion of those simple gestures, but then entire
> sections of the story
> went missing. In our lips we could feel the slight buzz
> of the edge where the cut was made. We crawled in and out of those
> holes
> wearing different faces.
>
> I believe the stories got wet and began to bleed together.
> I believe we built the sides of the town too high and the events kept
> rolling back.
> I didn't know that the water was going to keep rising as well, but if
> you
> have any say in the matter, while the boats go down, I'd like to be on
a
>
> ladder, peeking into a loft made narcotic with children, a dead pool
> with rolling, living waves. If possible,
> I'd like the water to douse the match that's growing out of the bones
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> "'Star in the Throat, Fire in the Cupboard' is loosely based on events
> that occurred throughout northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan during
> the 1800s
> and early 1900s. The poem comes from a collection about a fictional
town
> in
> which several conflated and highly-altered historical disasters happen
> over
> and over. The town keeps burning, flooding, dwindling, and finally
> disappearing. This particular poem speculates on how an event (in this
> case
> the Peshtigo, Wisconsin, firestorm of 1871-the worst recorded forest
> fire in
> United States history) becomes distorted through repetition and
> retelling." -Catie Rosemurgy
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