Alaina Schneider
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How horrible is it to use one thing throughout your life's work of poetry? Wakowski is one of my favorite poets, yet sometimes I wonder if she loses brownie points by following the same themes.
She has a series about greed. The series is set up in parts, and some of them are published separately or together (i.e. "Greed: Parts 5-7") and some are published in her other compilation books. She also has the concept of greed in a great deal of her non-series poems. She uses distinct images over and over, the same phrases, like "landlord of emotion". While I don't find it redundant, I can see how it'd make her work seem... less respectable.
For sure this error or trait or asset has been committed by numerous other poets. As a reader, do we overlook that and worship the poems individually for their merit? Or are we doomed to only read Wakowski on late nights and after breakups?
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