Akira Kurosawa and More

I found Goldberg's writing on The Samurai was the most interesting of what she wrote.   At first I was like "What does this have to do with Samurai?", then it hit me...Slice and dice some shit when you write.  Keep only the good stuff, the rest can be chopped up.   That is a pretty good idea.   Sometimes when we write, not everything is gold.   So, cut out the stuff that isn't.  It's a way of purification or enrichment.

I wonder you do go the way of the Samurai, chopping up and cutting out the good stuff, does that mean that you will eventually come up with a Kurosawa Samurai masterpiece?  I don't know.   I don't think you can just cut and dice arbitrarily.  I think you have to take the time to really look at what you are writing.

I was also intrigued by her view on "Claiming your own work".  Maybe it is because I am somewhat of a braggart, as she claims we shouldn't be.  I just don't have any problem accepting when my work is good and claiming it.  Even when my work is bad, I still accept that I wrote it.  I don't understand what the problem is...Maybe I am just proud of the things I can do.

As for Fluorescence...Goddamnit, I was under the illusion that we were done with poetry.   I really didn't find many of the poems to be compelling.   Though, I did like one of them...Well, half of one of them...Four on page 37.  I like it through the bottom of page 38.   I liked the flow and the talk of all these shitty and ironic things.   Then, when it changes from the continued paragraph form, it loses something for me.  I don't know why.  Can't explain it.