The nineties were fun, I'm sure, the grunge was a nice touch. I grew up in the nineties after all... However when I decided to read up on some of the poetry from that decade, I came up short. Not as in there was none to be found, (there was an abundance clamouring for my attention) literally as in one-word stanzas and a complete disregard for rhyme and meter.
Yes, I get it.. you are all free spirits, non-conformists without answer to anyone... but then why the heck do you all write in the same, dry, unimaginative monotone, I ask?
Now, admittedly I'm a free-verse poet myself, but I've just one point to make here, poets of the nineties..
Writing it
in
short
lines won't
make
it
poetry, darnit.
To critique the poetry of my childhood decade... what IS this shit?
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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