after david antin:
david antin wrote a really long poem on a private occasion in a public place and i really think that this class has been like that for me i mean, i feel like the majority of my wreading posts were about how these poets related to my life as opposed to the poetics and theory of it feeling versus thinking, you could call it but in any case it was really exciting at first then, in the middle, starting with ashbery i think i started to really struggle i just didn't "get it" i remember how myles didn't get creeley and i loved creeley so naturally and was like "what is there not to get" but after ashbery and grenier i didn't "get it" either and i started to get frustrated but i managed to get myself out of the rut at the end and definitely so with this project my general life philosophy has been that when you really get to know someone/something you can't help but love them during the class i felt like i just vaguely liked the poets and strongly resisted some of the others (like i was so angry at baraka at first but then after class i liked him a bit better and then after writing a poem after him i could understand what it was like to write an angry poem too and how that doesn't make me a bad racist person just because i am angry)
during this final blog poetry project i seriously re-read all of the poets and i was at home or in china so there were no distractions of penn during the semester i felt like it was hard to concentrate just because i felt like penn kind of kills the poetic, human self and replaces it with evil wharton genes (maybe i need to hang out at kwh more but i feel like it's so hard to really get in with the crowd there) but anyways, i really focused and regained some of that soul and then learned to love every single poet because like i said when you really get to "know" someone you can't help but love them just because they are human and so am i, you know? there is that thing in common and you can't help but fall in love all you need is the tiniest bit of spark and i couldn't help but admire some of the poets that i had really disliked before like i didn't like rothenberg i guess because i'm sensitive and i thought he was just too damn graphic now i still think he's really graphic which is weird because he is old and old people are conservative but now i admire him there is a newfound respect that came from me struggling to imitate him and i didn't do all the poets in the end i only chose fifteen because i wanted to do ones that would be the most meaningful to me learning so i chose both poets that i loved and poets that i had hated after re-reading all the wreading posts and poems and this is the end product i hope you like it i am really unsure about my own poetry especially since it's being so closely linked to these amazing people but like antin said poetry is a private occasion in a public place these are private poems here in a public place the end
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