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Catfishenfuego posted:
The best thing about this poem is how it finds new and inventive ways to convey the old "one foot in the grave" idea. We have ice "half melted" but also "rehardened"; presumably warm, living palms "half stick" to a frosty rail; a reflection on near misses (in the course of her life, she has been close to falling/death before); "bodies...Corpses" are only partially buried insofar as the trees are "half submerged". You really drive this point home well. Some of the images are good, for example the hand on the rail and the felled trees, half sunk and covered in frost. I think this piece is fine without another verse. Unless that verse is amazing don't shoehorn it in just to have it there. With revision, this could be a neat poem.
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Apr 20, 2016 14:35
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Nice. I'm glad you made the ice so active
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I've got a question about submitting poetry to lit mags. For mags that accept multiple submissions, am I better off submitting one poem I think they will really like, or should I submit as many pieces as they let me? Lately I've been using a "throw gum at the wall" strategy, thinking I should submit as many stylistically varied poems to a single outlet that I can, all in the hopes that one will stick. On the other hand, I'm wondering if a lack of consistent style between poems will hurt ALL my submissions. That is, if an outlet hates most of my work, will the staff there really ignore all that dislike just to print the one piece they do enjoy? What's the conventional wisdom on this within the poetry publishing community?
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