Christopher de Vinck: April is National Poetry Month, as if poetry needs an awareness campaign.
I am sorry to say that April is National Poetry Month, as if poetry needs an awareness campaign. Like much in the United States today, poetry is sinking to the lowest common denominator, lacking sense and sound, and celebrating writers for their fame and less for their talent.
If you never had apple pie before, your first piece is sublime, but after years of tasting different pies, you have a much better taste for what is delicious.My 5-year-old grandson loves the color and shape of dandelions. He picks them whenever he has a chance. When his parents took him to the New York Botanical Gardens, he was dazzled.
If you want to learn how to find quality poems, you need to educate yourself. Begin with the poetry of Walt Whitman, who almost single-handedly helped us break away from the stodgy and pretentious traditions of rhyming schemes and sonnets as he used vivid images and common language. Hear the sounds he made with sentences, and how he used all the tools of poetry and not just isolated formats.
Finally when you read the sensual, exact, passionate Pablo Neruda, then you are ready to tell the difference between a poem that is a dandelion and a poem that is a rose. “I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”Poetry is not a trick, or a way to mimic Shakespeare. Poetry does not seduce or spit, or find its way to the ocean and gather shells.
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