Shuushin9 Oct 2003

Totally understood and I very much appreciate the response to my comments. It is hard to make a fair citique of a poem without being familiar with the poet's body of work - but I figure one approach is to take each at face value.

As for writing IP and something of length, yes - can be a drag. I have a crown of sonnets I've been "working on" for 8 months. 5 sonnets into it, plus skeletons for the remainders, I just look at it now and think, "what a pathetic piece of crap."

Anyway - I do like quite a bit of what you've got here (there is lots of substance), sorry if I appear to focus more on the crits.