2026.04.19 Everybody Loves a Poetry Critic (volume 3: January 31, 2021 - February 22, 2026)
IntroFace 3
- ENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE (written April 24. 2026E.V.)
This being the 3rd volume of my Everybody Loves a Poetry Critic group of bks, this is my 3rd "IntroFace" since I'm writing a different one for every volume (as well as a different "Author's Biography" at the end). SO, the question becomes, for me, How shd I wrote this to distinguish it & add to the others? That's a challenge, one I'd hypothetically welcome if my money were my where muffle is.
What I think of is this: Imagine a piece of fruit. Does it matter wch type of fruit? Probably, but I haven't gotten that far yet. Imagine you have a bag of oranges that you've just come back w/ from the grocery store that you're getting out of yr car trunk. NOW, imagine the bag rips & the oranges go spilling out into the road just as a car comes along. Not surprisingly (are you surprised?), the car runs over some of the oranges. I'm not attributing malevolence to the driver, they might not even have seen the oranges. For whatever reason, as you see this happen & groan a little bit instead of thinking overmuch about it you flash back to picking that bag of oranges at the store & putting them in the cart. This memory is no big deal but you remember how much you were looking forward to trying out that juicer that you have but never use. You know it'll be healthy for you &, besides, you like fresh-squeezed orange juice w/ pulp.
You have now put yourself in the mind of a poet & in the mind of a poetry critic thinking about the poet's poetry.
Let me put it another way: You look at yrself in the mirror but you're not there. Instead, there's a haggard She, an H Rider, a haggard THING that rides those Hs hard, tries to ride them all the way to the bank but rides them straight into a wall. Amazingly enuf, neither you nor the Hs get killed or the slightest bit harmed. Instead, you find yrself on the other side of the wall, in an H. G. Wells story. There you are again, in the land of the Hs. How do these hings heep happening to you?! You don't know, yr psychiatrist doesn't know.. & the drugs they give you just make matters worse. But yr poetry UNDERSTANDS, & even explains it to you. Since you write it down it then becomes the province of the poetry critic to explain it to poetential readers. You see? You shd be grateful! But, instead, now you're just bitter about those lost oranges, they become symbols for you of all the opportunities of yr life that've crashed & burned - that incredibly attractive person who explained to you that they found yr pheromones positively repulsive. How can anything be "positively repulsive"? Isn't that contradictory? I mean if that special person found my pheromones "positively repulsive" wdn't that mean that b/c the repulsion is positive wdn't it then become an attractive thing?
But I digress.
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