Annette, it's something I've been seeing a lot of, especially in the more "experimental" journals. Someone is trying extra hard to look innovative and "tricksy." Just makes me sigh as I contemplate hacking my way through the verbose undergrowth.
I find the format of "Mother," a paragraph sprinkled with slash marks, both annoying and pretentious, as if this format makes the piece excitingly transgressive and original. It doesn't.
I don’t know if the intention is to be exciting and transgressive, it just looks like what happens when the poet runs out of paper…so I can’t read it, does not enter the cognitive capacity.
That's really dark, but so well done
Annette, it's something I've been seeing a lot of, especially in the more "experimental" journals. Someone is trying extra hard to look innovative and "tricksy." Just makes me sigh as I contemplate hacking my way through the verbose undergrowth.
I find the format of "Mother," a paragraph sprinkled with slash marks, both annoying and pretentious, as if this format makes the piece excitingly transgressive and original. It doesn't.
I don’t know if the intention is to be exciting and transgressive, it just looks like what happens when the poet runs out of paper…so I can’t read it, does not enter the cognitive capacity.