tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post2888107681836145627..comments2023-08-29T02:42:23.063-05:00Comments on ¡Bemsha SWING!: Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-44330849497129073402010-03-01T13:01:03.755-06:002010-03-01T13:01:03.755-06:00Ditto with JforJames on your few sentences on rece...Ditto with JforJames on your few sentences on receptivity. It's a key quality; it might include not only knowing one's prejudices, but actively trying to limit their filters. I try on the first read through to identify what the poet's trying to do -- what's the style or approach -- and then try to appreciate the effort regardless of whether that's how I or anyone else would want it done. <br /><br />More important, I've found that for some books I have to come back to them months or years after the first reading, to give it a second or third or (insert number) whirl. <br /><br />Stein's <i>Tender Buttons</i> took about six read-throughs before it started to get to me in a good way...<br /><br />Good luck with the 9,000, and thanks for posting about the books as you go along.... <br /><br />And thanks for encouraging at least bi-lingualism via the Espanol in the comment box template.Steven Famahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-14071583364662657412010-02-28T11:22:33.893-06:002010-02-28T11:22:33.893-06:00I like what you've said about receptivity and ...I like what you've said about receptivity and the reader. We can't set aside our readerly prejudices, but awareness of how these prejudices might be refracting our reading, so to speak, may be enough to make us slip off our 'prismatic glasses', and to 'take in' the text on its own terms.JforJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17178504373218996278noreply@blogger.com