I know, I know. I'm late. I'm gonna fail Juliana's class because I'll never blog correctly and then I won't be able to leave graduate school and then my chilren'll die...

Phew, okay, now I've got that out of my system. The thing is, I don't think I like NEST all that well. I really like Berssenbrugge, but not NEST...I think. I can hear Mei Mei reading it in my head, and I think that would work. But I feel like the writing is kind of too easy or something. It's too prosy and too "I" centered, and the vocabulary is too limited. That is, she recycles language. The thing is, I don't think though that she's playing with forms like the sestina or anything. I think she's just really limited in her vocabulary. This annoys me, I guess, because when I write, I try (usually) to never repeat myself. As such, if we look at the poem, "Nest," we find, for example, the words "wall" and "room" and "margin" and "shadow" and "light," etc., repeated all over the place. Why? Plus, she's working with these big, vague, "poetic" concepts all the time in the book like space and history and place and structure. I think this all bores me. She does though make me come up with my own lines when I read, so this is a good thing. I dunno. I'm probably all wrong.

Scott

p.s. Oh, and I may be submitting this twice, or not at all. I dunno. ˇˇ