Reaction to Poetry reading on March 3rd, ?2012
I came to a poetry reading earlier this year and fell asleep because I was so relaxed during it and I have to say, it?s really good awake too. ?It is interesting to look back and reflect on listening the poems read by their author and comparing it to my first encounter with Thursday poems.
Of the poems read on March 3rd, the ones that caught my ear most were those read by the author?s themselves. ?One poem told of shining a light on the side of a mountain in hopes to see the glowing green eyes of a mountain lion said to live on the same mountain as his families cabin in the Rocky?s. ?The author spoke with a sense of longing to see the mighty beast in action, and before reading the poem he confessed that he still shines the light in hopes to see one every time he goes there. ?I think I liked this so much because it was so easy to relate to the author and you were invited into the story to be apart of the family as they talked with ?the smell of the rusting tractor? in the background.
The other poem I found to be captivating told of a man digging fence posts into cracking and unforgiving dirt and clay. ?The author himself did not appear to be one for physical labor, he was tall and lanky, but it served him will in contrasting his own abilities with a seasoned fence post digger. ?An image of the seasoned fence post digger swinging his tools were portrayed as being one fluid movement with no tools, just a man?s extension of his arm as he worked with much less labor during his turns of digging fence posts than the author faced during his.
It struck me that I liked these because of how they were presented; the poems were read by their authors. ?This made all of the difference for me, because just as you need subtitles to understand a foreign film, an author has to translate their work for the full effect and purpose to be met. ??The first Author took very deliberate and slow pauses and used inflections to give readers a sense of his desire. ?The second author spoke more plainly but his tone in speaking matched his scientifically inclined style of writing and thought process. ?ultimately, I think that reading your own works allows you to just be a more efficient and effective reader, because authoring a work gives you authority over it to present the piece or change it into something else entirely.
Source: http://davemoeslein.umwblogs.org/2012/03/02/journal-6/
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