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Originally posted by Robert J. Clawson:
Colleagues,
I've had good friends and critics tell me that my poems lack a "philosophical core," that they're "impersonal," that they have no "poetic depth" or "poetic destination." That's not all: I've been called a "wordsmith," and a writer without "vision" or "soul."
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Yup. I've heard those.
I've also heard that I'm too personal, too sentimental, too specific, and not universal enough.
The same people always give me the same critiques, even when the poems range from impersonal satire to damn near confessional angst bullshit.
Which means, at least too me, that it isn't my problem. It's theirs.
Julie