Teaser Tuesday (but it's Sunday...)

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page.
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given! 

from "A Few More Don'ts"
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/     Ezra Pound set forth his now-famous "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" in the March 1913 issue of Poetry.  In commemoration we've asked a few writers to updated Pound's Essay for our time. 


from Sina Queryas's "Tightrope":

       "If, on a snowy night, you find yourself feeling like you are                             inside a Robert Frost poem

        and are moved to write, know that you are feeling move to write
        the poem Robert Frost already wrote.

If, on a crowded street you find your thoughts walking ahead of you,
at a steady pace,

as if they have never been known by you,

you are probably writing your own poem." (47)

I really like this list poem, first off, because it's about writing poetry, and secondly, because it has a clever sense of humor.  The students have me thinking about the difference between plagiarism and imitating established poets, and while I have no answers, I revel in the debate itself.  Above, Queryas reminds us, as Pound would, that the purpose of art is to make something new again. Just appreciating the beauty of a thing isn't enough.  Make it new. Just as the last line of Queryas's poem reads, "Sometimes a poem is just a tweet," but who said a tweet can't be a poem too? Make it new, (you'll have more followers that way too).