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Unread 08-26-2018, 05:52 PM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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I sincerely thank Susan and Erik for expressing their honest opinions about whether the poem would be more effective if approached in a different way.

However, I can't resist mentioning that of the dozens of poems on this topic that I have written in a more formal and more euphemistic way than Cathy has here, I have only ever succeeded in getting ONE published. (Bless you, editor emeritus Paul Lake at First Things.) [Edited to correct this statement: He only retired from teaching, and is still poetry editor at [i]First Things[.i]]

Regardless of what punctuation conventions and diction are used, is very, very hard for victims' point of view to be heard on this subject. Period.

[TMI deleted.]

For disturbing topics like this one, I think that techniques that work for one audience will fall flat with another. And that's okay.

I liked it, Cathy. Thanks.

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