I'm aiming to do more chapbook reviews in the near future. Actually writing a review forces me to reread, making it more likely that I will understand and gain sympathy for the writer's project. I know people who say they read every poem three times. Yikes. I don't. Instead, I tend to read 'em once, and if I don't get it immediately, I just toss it aside. I was wondering why this is, and am forced to conclude that I think that I am so smart that if I don't understand it on the first read, then there must be nothing to understand. Eek. Resolving to do (be) better.
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