Stop making sense!

In „The Oregonian“ vom 7.9.03 gibt David Biespiel zwei Ratschläge, wie man jungen Leuten Gedichte nahebringt. Der erste geht so:

I have found poetry writing to go best when students write and rewrite every day or nearly so. Good, bad, or ugly — it doesn’t matter — the more concrete and the weirder the better. Suggest to students to write strange, horrible things about, for instance, their bathtub, in strict meter but no rhyme. Then reverse it. Keep the goals bizarre and avoid big themes. Tell them to stop making sense. They’ll write better that way. And have them write poems related to their science lessons, history, even math, all the while focusing on the rumbling sounds of concrete words.