tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post3957561040178970486..comments2024-03-18T20:41:39.140-07:00Comments on C. E. Chaffin's Blog: Is My Poetry Too Inhuman?C. E. Chaffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02639448512282317750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-35461191626192074932007-02-17T13:03:00.000-08:002007-02-17T13:03:00.000-08:00Okay CE here's another nugget for you...You have c...Okay CE here's another nugget for you...<BR/><BR/>You have conceded on various occasions that as a manic-depressive, you are effectively 'crazy', that is, beneath the thinnest veneer of rationality and self-possession, there is unalloyed madness. Fair enough. <BR/>However it occurs to me that your poetical exercises are peons to self-possession and self-mastery, that is to say, your poetry my be a sort of mindful evasion. Isn't it striking how a poet with such vast stores of non-linearity manages to write, on the whole, such poised, 'rational' poetry? Why would such a person's poetry tend toward perfect sense? Perhaps it is a stratagem for keeping the demons at bay. <BR/><BR/>Maybe it serves as a subconscious advertisement to his former keepers that he has 'mastered the art of sanity' and need never be returned to the loonie bin; a fear of detection masquerading as a revelatory act.<BR/><BR/>Clearly there is a monster lurking in this poem. Interesting how when you elect to 'open' yourself, it's the monster (of madness) that first appears. What prevented this speaker from beating his own grandson's head against the wall in a fit of projected self-loathing. After all, it happens every day in America. Was the 'veneer' of self-composure enough to stop him? Does he underestimate the tensile strength of his veneer? Is he short-shrifting his own reserves of sanity?<BR/><BR/>Stop me if I probe too much. I take your desire to better your art --and your determined self-exposure-- as an invitation to these sorts of persoanlized queries.<BR/><BR/>--NormAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14879983.post-24505738088482590942007-02-17T10:10:00.000-08:002007-02-17T10:10:00.000-08:00tagfavorite filmstag<BR/><BR/>favorite filmssam of the ten thousand thingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04378206265831223396noreply@blogger.com