I Got Drunk and then Poetry - Mark Petersen

I Got Drunk and then Poetry

By Mark Petersen

  • Release Date: 2013-02-10
  • Genre: Poetry
Score: 4
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From 718 Ratings

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

    5
    By fortitude .
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  • different

    5
    By amixrah
    this was very different to what i usually read and write but i enjoyed the rawness of it.
  • Loved it

    5
    By rodagodson
    Short but loved what was there, left me really wanting more. So much said and spoken with such a rawness to it.
  • Tiara Thomas

    1
    By tlabome
    Should’ve elaborated more
  • almost

    4
    By I'm going to rip my hair out
    he 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

    5
    By spookiezelda
    Poetry 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 me
  • well...

    2
    By dauntlaw
    It's exactly what you'd expect a free book of drunk poetry to be like.
  • Short and sweet

    5
    By Kimberquat
    I 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

    4
    By Sahararoseee
    Beautiful concept . I’d love to read more !
  • Free

    1
    By AlienUnicorn420
    I guess I can’t complain it’s free

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