Buyer’s Remorse by Charles Harper Webb intrigued me the first time I read it. This poem is stating my feelings that all people have. Everyone is unsatisfied. There is a little bit of doubt in decisions that are made. He brings this issue to light in a manner that is easy to comprehend. The quote by Mary Oliver at the beginning helps to set the tone of the poem. The idea that Chad Davidson and Gregory Fraser have about the expansion-contraction process is really interesting. I do find myself while writing create a piece, then add more to it, and then take away even more. Most of my pieces tend to be a great amount shorter then when they first started. I enjoyed the prompts about question and response writing in order to gain more material and more ideas. I find that my best material comes by improv-ing and riffing from published lines. I like the idea of radical arrangement, kind of framing everything to the strongest piece in the overwrite. I enjoyed the idea of the creative erasure being a little bit prosy. The idea of form being able to exist in a freer give-and-take process intrigues me in the way that it is being presented in this book.
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