Now you have me thinking, Meg! My guess is that, when writing poetry, you are free to abandon consideration of logic, timeline, full sentences, and so on. Poetry gets one closer to the experience of dreaming — filled with symbolic meanings, intense emotions, and ineffable mystery. To be in the state of mind to write poetry HAS to be different.
These pieces get me thinking and I very much appreciate that. I wonder if "writing is writing" is universal regardless of genre, because that's not my experience. Writing poetry for me is viscerally, emotionally and intellectually different from writing prose. Perhaps for the most accomplished writers, there is no distinction depending on genre. But I go a very different internal place when poems are hatching. Meg
Now you have me thinking, Meg! My guess is that, when writing poetry, you are free to abandon consideration of logic, timeline, full sentences, and so on. Poetry gets one closer to the experience of dreaming — filled with symbolic meanings, intense emotions, and ineffable mystery. To be in the state of mind to write poetry HAS to be different.
These pieces get me thinking and I very much appreciate that. I wonder if "writing is writing" is universal regardless of genre, because that's not my experience. Writing poetry for me is viscerally, emotionally and intellectually different from writing prose. Perhaps for the most accomplished writers, there is no distinction depending on genre. But I go a very different internal place when poems are hatching. Meg