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Unread 03-15-2015, 12:21 AM
Julie Steiner Julie Steiner is offline
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There is some stuff I find rather witty (I always look for wit) but more that seems centered on the "family romance." Surely I wrote about family matters when I was young (what else do young poets have to write about?) but to read not-so-younger and older poets still going over their problems with mom, dad, and various uncles (rarely aunts) is tiresome.
Love and death can be awfully trite and tiresome subjects, too, yet some of our favorite poems treat these old chestnuts. I wonder if it's actually not the subject that wearies you, but a certain stereotypical approach to it.

(Although I concede that it could be that you just don't like the subject, period, or aren't in a particularly receptive mindset for it at this point in your life. For the past few days I've been trying to read a book of poems by someone who uses a lot of magical realism, and I've had to set it aside repeatedly because I just can't give this type of stuff a fair hearing while I'm dealing with certain unmagical goings-on in real life. Maybe next week...)
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