• Re: Trevanian on Will Dockery's poetry expertise

    From Cujo DeSockpuppet@21:1/5 to NancyGene on Thu May 29 20:50:47 2025
    XPost: alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.poetry

    nancygene.andjayme@gmail.com (NancyGene) wrote in news:708162d9784e499abe480c619fcc5645@www.novabbs.com:

    Trevanian (in "Shibumi") describes Will Dockery's poetry writing:

    "Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years of experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience—twenty times."

    Will Dockery has said that he has fifty years of experience writing
    poetry, so he knows what poetry is. However, his poetry from 50 years
    ago and his poetry from today are of the same sub-substandard quality.
    He has had one year of experience in writing poetry--fifty times.

    One minute of experience times 10,512,000.

    What a wasted life. If Little willie douchebag had a sense of shame he
    would have stopped trying to live off welfare checks, his mother and
    begging.

    A sense of shame means he might have started supporting the hellspawn he foisted on the taxpayers.


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