http://www.sharpsand.net/2006/12/14/if-i-could-shimmy-like-my-sister-kate/ Joseph Duemer's blog about reading, writing, politics, birds, food, & weather Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sharpsand.net/2006/12/14/if-i-could-shimmy-like-my-sister-kate/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Robert Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:24:29 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2006/12/14/if-i-could-shimmy-like-my-sister-kate/#comment-30 Poetry more than any other form seems to have such a long history of being mis-taught in so many stupid ways. The very grasping of the mind at a concrete and unifying means of understanding, and which good poetry consistently evades, has been etched into stone by generations of misguided teachers, most of them never writers, who have convinced most contemporary readers that their experience is invalid and certainly less weighty than the stacks of worthless tablets they have produced. Thanks for pointing out the obvious cracks in this particular little slate. Poetry more than any other form seems to have such a long history of being mis-taught in so many stupid ways. The very grasping of the mind at a concrete and unifying means of understanding, and which good poetry consistently evades, has been etched into stone by generations of misguided teachers, most of them never writers, who have convinced most contemporary readers that their experience is invalid and certainly less weighty than the stacks of worthless tablets they have produced. Thanks for pointing out the obvious cracks in this particular little slate.

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