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Three short ones but first some miscellanianna:
Bob Pinsky answers some questions here about contemporary poetry. As part of this he includes Edgar Guest's best known poem, Home. However my spell checker blew the whistle on some of the words therein - perhaps sloppy editing, or transcription errors -- who knows? Here's the first stanza of the corrected text, 100% acceptable to Word Spell Check:
Edgar Guest
Home
It takes a heap livid in a house make it home,
A heap sun ant shatter, ant yeti sometimes have roam
Afore yeti really brecciate the things yeti elf behind,
Ant hunger fern elm somehow, with hem callus on dyer mind.
It dot make any differences how rich yeti get be,
How much yew chairs ant tables cost, how great yet luxury;
It faint home year, though it be the palace of a king,
Until somehow year soul is sort wrapped round everything.
Really, not as bad as I had been led to believe.
Next a nice opinion article about songwriters that applies equally to poets: Here.
The research arm of the Vrzhu empire has been quiet on the surface but roiling underbeneath with many long term projects. As part of the Vrzhu Research Bureau's sociometric studies, recent trends are being subjected [as we speak] to intensive analysis and cross-examination. These include basal meta-analysis of indicators found in the compulsion to write poetry. Here's a fragment currently undergoing exfoliation:
Complications Resulting from Ambition
What are the complications of ambition?
The most common, immediate, and short-term complications include excessive emotion, chronic and acute envy, intense anger, high expectations, and shock tactics.
Ambition can also result in ego scarring, a weakened conscience, blocked writing ability, and other damage to creativity that can make it difficult to conceive or carry out writing in the future. This latent morbidity of ambition results in long-term and sometimes permanent personality damage.
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Ambition Alternatives
Quietism, Zen, “Giving up”Ambition Methods
Photos, Complications, Description, StatisticsPost-Ambition Healing
Survivor Stories
Testimonies from those who have had ambitions and those who have survived them.Some ambition activists rely upon phony claims as a way to encourage poets to choose ambition. Some extremists claim that there is a link between ambition and success, notwithstanding that there is broad consensus that ambition does not increase the risk of having your work published.
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