Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I see critiques of photography, sometimes I feel this poem has some relevance. T'was written by Billy Collins, a poet from up North (Arkansas,) Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Introduction to Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. Billy Collins The Apple that Astonished Paris University of Arkansas Press Copyright © 1988 by Billy Collins. All rights reserved. Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html