Stragey Response 1, Week 1

Though I've read through the entire book Writing Poetry before, I read it this time through the lens of a more practiced writer rather than a student just beginning to write in a class setting. I paid special attention this time to the section on "Juggling," a skill I never learned to master and yet always wanted to learn to do. It always seemed to me that Juggling as successfully as Adam Zagajewski was something only seasoned poets could do, and so I would probably do well to stay away from its intricacies. Even though I'm sure it's probably true that a more practiced poet can perform the act of Juggling within his or her poetry with more precision than I could, that is one thing that I would love to perfect this semester. I would love to learn how to write a poem that discusses two or three or even four different things at once, that (at first) seem unrelated and then suddenly merge into one another in a way that makes me step back from the work and say, "Wow! I didn't mean to say that! How interesting!" Juggling is one specific tactic that I very sincerely plan to work on throughout the semester!