http://rachmiel.org/blog/?p=154 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://rachmiel.org/blog/?p=154&cpage=1#comment-2421 M. Ives Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:01:34 +0000 http://rachmiel.org/blog/?p=154#comment-2421 Sage advice, Rachmiel. I often suggest to my college-age poetry students that they ought, in the interest of clarifying their images, to rewrite or revise as if they their audience were a supremely intelligent ten year old – that is, intelligent enough to process the “poetic argument” at work in the text, but lacking in the sort of “sophistication” that seduces adult readers into mistaking superfluous for necessary complexity.

]]>