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How Coming Out Changed Maureen Seaton's Writing
"(I've Had) The Time of My Life," by Maureen Seaton
I'm not certain I connect with Seaton's poetry (since for me, compression is important no matter how many sex/death revelations one has), but I love the exuberance that her coming out seems to have lent to her writing -- how even her sense of form changed once she knew who she really was. |
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Makes sense that her writing would change I imagine. Before she may have been trying to deny (even to herself) who she was inside and so her writing reflected that. I've often heard it said that writing is autobiographical in nature. The writing reflects the writer.
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Well, poets should write truth as they experience it.
If she was not doing that then she was not being a true poet. |
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To an extent we all hide who we really are though I think kennyc. The word person comes from the Greek word Persona which literally means 'mask,' and all of us wear various masks in life. Some of them we aren't even aware of ourselves. I mean the same man who is a hard taskmaster at work may show a totally different face to the world in his own home or vice versa, and show yet another face to those he socializes with during recreational activities. And I wonder how many of us ever truly know ourselves as well as we think we do.
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I disagree. As i said. It also applies to writers but is dependant on what they write.
Let me just add that if a writer ..particularly a poet...is not writing honestly from everything they know to be true in their heart of hearts they should find another job....like politician, lawyer, or CEO. Last edited by kennyc; 09-03-2013 at 08:18 PM. |
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I know that, you didn't address the topic or my comment, you went off on some tangent.
And again I disagree with you. Writers in order to be honest must know themselves. It has nothing to do with masks or faces. The job of a writer is to know himself.....and put it on paper....if he doesn't he is not being honest, true and is not doing what a writer should do, which is what I said that started this. Last edited by kennyc; 09-03-2013 at 09:49 PM. |
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If you are writing for the market or not writing what is true to you then you should get a new job, politician, lawyer, CEO.
The poet mentioned here already knew herself but was not being honest and (at least according to the op) harmed her writing. I'm heard this over and over and over. In order to be a writer (especially a poet) one must remove all the masks. Otherwise they are wasting everyone's time. Last edited by kennyc; 09-03-2013 at 09:53 PM. |
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It sounds as though she was truthful before -- just unaware of her real orientation. She might even agree with you that she wasn't a fully formed poet until she knew herself as a woman, given what she's written about the changes in her work. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 09-03-2013 at 10:04 PM. |
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I also think I'm have more of a reaction to this myself due to my own recent revelations in my approach to writing which I've written about in another thread. |
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BTW here is the original publication and a poem to go with it from PANK mag:
http://www.pankmagazine.com/maureen-seaton/ |
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Link, mayhaps?
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Some have said that Christina Rossetti's "The Goblin Market" is a veiled expression of same-sex desire, but I wonder whether she'd have been mortified by that interpretation. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 09-04-2013 at 12:41 AM. |
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