1 post tagged “america”

Free writing is an interesting prospect, an equation of meditation and wandering thoughts equaling a pile of almost useless prose. It seems to be more of a way of collecting all of those stray thoughts that are imagined while one is waiting in traffic. The dream of some far off reality that you have only scant understanding of. Not to be confused with Kerouac's spontaneous prose, but equally important to anyone who has to smack a typewriter for a living. Through enough free writing I have begun to understand that the mind thinks in neither words no pictures, but metaphor and deep ones at that. We are all poets when we dream, but much of it is lost to the conscious mind. Both dreams and poets are to blame. Creating a world averse to poetry and poetry averse to the world. Literature has become a fools errand because pretentious fools have made this a game of the learned, and by learned they mean an exclusive club of people who have attempted to read books, and then repeated the same cliches from the Cliff's Notes. Pretension is not just a fool's errand in writing, it seems to be consuming all of our arts. American arts and letters has an elitist attitude, borrowed heavily from Europeans. That is not our tradition and never has been.