On poetry: being too close to your subject

[sweetsongstress]

I’ve been in and out of first drafts of poems lately.  Most of them are about coping with losing Josh.  I think that’s why I don’t have the courage or even the professional distance I need to go and snip where I need to, or to fix what sounds cheesy or cliché.  Part of me doesn’t want to trim away at the raw emotion, while a larger part of me knows

Comments

[nicoli_dominn]

I’d rather care too much and work from there.

That's exactly what I was going to say. :-)