I Got Drunk and then Poetry
By Mark Petersen
- Release Date: 2013-02-10
- Genre: Poetry
Description
These poems were composed while having drinks downtown, enjoying the college-town local nightlife often with a typewriter and sometimes with an ink-pen and a Moleskine notebook. I let myself go, and I wrote a few gems and a whole lot of crap.
I have chosen the gems and applied Hemingway’s advice: “write drunk, edit sober”. My raw poetry was rife with typos and holes and I needed to edit it to make it clear and coherent. But I also didn’t want to overcook it; in my editing I strove to keep each poem faithful to the original so that the emotion and drunkenness would be maintained.
Reviews
Great work
5By fortitude .Âdifferent
5By amixrahthis was very different to what i usually read and write but i enjoyed the rawness of it.Loved it
5By rodagodsonShort but loved what was there, left me really wanting more. So much said and spoken with such a rawness to it.Tiara Thomas
1By tlabomeShould’ve elaborated morealmost
4By I'm going to rip my hair outhe was just barely touching the surface, teasing. i was craving so much more by the end of it. but i guess that’s the point of it being so short. regardless i loved it and it was free so? can’t complain.opens my eyes to all the art around me
5By spookiezeldaPoetry has become such an out for me. And every single word laid out on those pages showed me that there is art in everyone. Even in mewell...
2By dauntlawIt's exactly what you'd expect a free book of drunk poetry to be like.Short and sweet
5By KimberquatI love the honesty and how direct all these poems are The last one really hit me, and made me feel better about my own writing I need to appreciate myself so others can appreciate me Thank you!!!!Beautiful
4By SahararoseeeBeautiful concept . I’d love to read more !Free
1By AlienUnicorn420I guess I can’t complain it’s free