INTERVIEWER: You’ve talked before about trying your hand at poetry in this period. In an essay on writing, you said, “my poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.”The above excerpt is from an interview with Umberto Eco, published in the Paris Review this month
ECO: I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.
July 17, 2008
Poetry is like masturbation
Maybe it IS time to burn all my poetry! :)
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