whoa, everybody! i'm so encouraged to read what you've been working on! my summer's gotten off to a rocky start, and i'm anxious to get to colorado and start classes. i've had a few epiphanies, and you guys will be the first to know when they manifest themselves into poems. i'm starting to get worried that everything i want to write has already been written by william carlos williams...?
at the very least, i'll be producing a short story before the end of the year as part of a genre study at csu. i apologize in advance to the prose people.
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Welcome, Karyn!
Yes, it does sometimes feel like everything one might try to write has already been expressed better by somebody else. Even that very feeling -- it's in Eliot's "East Coker." But it's ok, because he says it's worth trying to say it again anyway.
". . . And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission has already been discovered
Once or twice or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate -- but there is no competition --
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found, and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
Anyway, I'm really glad you're here, Karyn, and I look forward to your input eagerly.
So, I was definitely going to tell you to read East Coker, but Joanna beat me to it. *smirk*
Anyway, welcome to the blog!
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