andrews-fiction

September 2, 2024

The idea of narrative or fiction, the idea of creating verisimilitude based on characters and plot situations – completely hokey Victorian notion.  The creative writing people are generally, you know, total, total hacks.  You know, they are living in another, that are living in some previous century, or living in some previous planet.  They’re still involved with this therapeutic, crappy ideology about letting students express their inner selves and these little epiphanies of lyric blubble, you know, I mean, it’s a joke, it’s a terrible joke.

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“I’m agnostic, entirely agnostic, to both formal and free fundamentalism. Neither makes much sense to me. Our poems have their own ambitions and at times tack and veer toward one way of being or another. Should we not listen to our poems? Should we not remain open to the vast possibilities of technique? To the mere joy of making? Painters and sculptors have been showing us the way for how long now? And poets still have much to learn from the best of them.”

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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