2026.04.24 Everybody Loves a Poetry Critic (volume 2: January 18, 2013 - December 28, 2020)

IntroFace 2

- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (written April 23. 2026E.V.)

I love reading. Depending on what one reads, I think that reading is very important & helpful for keeping one's mind alert & alive. Reading BKS is particularly important. & I think writing is similarly useful, writing helps one organize & clarify one's thoughts. Note that I don't write: 'help's one express one's self' even tho that can be a facet of what's accomplished. Self-expression is fine but an exclusive emphasis on it can be too narrow-minded in a way similar to referring to all musical units as 'songs' is. If one can't think outside the self-expression box then one is missing out on an infinity of other possibilities to be created & discovered. 3 friends of mine & I in Berlin conducted an experiment in wch we spoke to each other in words that were substitutes for what we were intending to say. After an hr or so of that I felt like I was levitating, it wasn't self-expression, it was truly extraordinary.

Sometimes I challenge myself when I read, usually I challenge other people when I write. There're many ways to challenge myself: I can read something in a language I don't speak, I can read something about a discipline I'm not fluent in, I can read difficult poetry. This latter is one of my more common self-challenges. When I'm looking for poetry to read (& review) I'm usually looking for poetry that seems original & NOT run-of-the-mill. Finding such things isn't always easy. One of the ways I appraise bkstores is by looking at their poetry section. If it all seems same-old-same-old then it seems likely to me that the rest of the store's stock will be similarly banal.

I like to think, & I think I'm correct about this, that most of the poetry I review in these 3 volumes of poetry criticism (w/, perhaps, more to come) is work that wdn't be found in the same-old-same-old bkstores AND that there're very few people other than myself who'll make any serious attempt to appreciate or delve into the writing - esp w/o resorting to pre-fabricated academic templates.

I'm not usually trying to place the work in normalizing categories, I try to just write about it freshly, calling it as I see it & giving personal links to show what my own context for perception is.

How much I succeed in surmounting the challenges is open to question. Some poets have led me to think that THEY, at least, find me to be one of the best.

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