This is a response to Wilson Chancey's post Junkyard 3 Week 2.
Here is what I wrote:
Wilson,
Even though I don't know what’s happening in the narrative, I
thoroughly enjoy the images you provide us, specifically “half-green
strawberries,” “taste like melon shell, dipped in lime,” “dark pulp of
an imperfect berry,” because they seem surprising in by themselves or in
context with the rest of the line. The next step would be to work on
the actual narrative, making them both work together to be surprising
and make some kind of sense.
Although I like the line “gulp of
discontent,” I’m not sure how I feel about that being so close to
“disconcerted with me also.” Maybe it’s the word disconcerted, which is
just so latinate, but I don’t think that line is as strong as the first.
The first line seems more surprising, like the images. The other
thing to think about—line breaks and end punctuation. Punctuation
becomes highly important in poetry because it reflects some sort of
control over syntax. It’s one of the things I struggle with most in
writing. But in this piece, I think that the first line needs some sort
of punctuation: a period seems most likely unless you decide to move
“dipped in lime” up to the second line, then you could get away with a
comma. The “dipped in lime” line seems a little out of place where it is
right now, because I’m not sure why it’s important enough to merit it’s
own line. It seems purely a description of the strawberries or the
melon shell. Just some things to think about for the next draft or
whatever you decide to do with this.
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