Week 7: Pre-Post

I love in particular, that I have have lived so many diverse places, because then I can identify with so many of the places that we read about. The Astralian Crawl piece was great. II could really identify. Not through writing necessarily, although I recognize that my most acclaimed writing and the pieces that win contests are always the ones that I do not over think. The pieces that I do vague planning, and then just let my fingers type away to a piece of excellence (although I rarely think they are, they did get me some scholarships). I, of all things, could identify through cheerleading. Cheerleading is a sport that commands that you get over mental blocks. You have to get inside your head and remove any thing that is in the way of you getting to the task. You have to convince yourself to flip backwards like a crazy person, in the same way that you have to just throw yourself into writing and think through how you want to land.

Danger on the Peaks was SO great. I love love love the Pacific Northwest and this great piece gave such an impression of the heart and soul of this region. I also appreciate the style of prose poetry. It gives me understanding. It makes so much more sense to read these odd little poems  instead of trying to understand what the author is implying and interpreting whatever is inside someone else's head. The piece One Thousand Cranes, was my favorite piece we have read all semester. I absolutely adored it! It was so capturing and the way he wove real cranes and the story of his wife and japanese tradition together was positively stellar.

I did not like State of the Planet. It was boring. Not engaging at all. And we all know how much I love poetry. I suffered through it, but it just felt like circling. I have no idea the point at the end.