Thursday, February 8, 2007

Sheila Garlow's "Bringing Sexy Back"

This poem was very refreshing. It was very basic, but also very well written. What I think works about this poem is the kind of stream of consciousness writing. This is very down to earth and very human. On the level of words I think bringing some of the pop culture icons into the story worked very well. It's like "My sister the J.T. Lake." I also enjoyed the way the poem is structured. It doesn't conform to the basic way a poem should be structured.
What could be changed in this poem is basically little nit- picky things. I am a fan of: the author knows best. In this poem I would try to watch my punctuation more. I also am not sure whether it is supposed to be " the poo- brown suit that grandma brought" or "bought." Another thing is that some of the lines don't really match with the poem structurally, which may be what the author is looking for, or may not be. They might want to look at narrowing down some of the longer thoughts.

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