<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460645" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0176 Letter to a Well-known Contemporary Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wanted to write to you about your poems, <br>that is, about something I couldn't quite put my finger on<br>so I didn't write in case it sounded inconsequential<br>and it's silly to write to a poet who handles words so expertly, <br>inconsequentially..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inconsequential. That's it. I appreciate that you want to stress<br>life's inconsequentiality - this happens, that happens, but<br>we're none the wiser - that's a modern concern, I appreciate, <br>no neat wrapping life up with a brisk end-rhyme...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but how can I put this tactfully, inconsequentiality<br>or is it tangentiality<br>can seem to the reader eager to extract meaning<br>that is, the poet's meaning, as near as can be...<br>inconsequentiality can seem...obscure...<br>for this very reason, since it's difficult<br>to share the same inconsequentiality<br>if you see what I mean</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and this unintentional obscurity<br>can sometimes seem<br>of course I know you wouldn't<br>but let's say to an uninformed superficial reader -<br>like pretension? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hope you don't mind my mentioning this<br>it's only because I do admire your writing so much<br>and I know that the prizes and awards you've won<br>proves that no-one could possibly accuse you of pretension<br>it's just that I thought I should say how it seems<br>to a very ordinary reader. I hope you will read this<br>in the spirit it's meant. And I do look forward<br>very much to reading your next book<br>now the library stocks them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460645" data-title="0176 Letter to a Well-known Contemporary Poet de Michael Shepherd" data-description="I wanted to write to you about your poems, that is, about something I couldn't quite put my finger on so I didn't write in case it sounded inconsequential and it's silly to write to a poet who handles words so expertly, inconsequentially.. Inco..."></div> </div> </div>

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