Clean Part Review

"It's just a feeling that we have--the desire to go deeper." - Kate Greenstreet in Salt chapter 13 [did not originate in the pools where it was found]. This reminds me of something that Kate said during her readings. She told of how after one of her readings a girl came up and told her that she really liked her book Case Sensitive and she thanked the girl and politely continued the conversation. The girl elaborated on why she liked the book so much and said it was because the chapter titles were written in brackets. Such a sense of humor made Kate funny in a very human like way. What I mean by that is that she did not conduct herself with too much of a sense of sophistication or an artistic nature and thereby separate herself from the audience.

No, instead she easily talked with friends in the audience walked up to the podium with barefeet and appeared very at ease with herself and the audience. She presented her work with a calm attitude and a soft tone.

However, most of her material went over my head during her reading. I don't believe that I am the perfect candidate to attend poetry readings unless they hand out pamphlets with the material on it that they are planning on reading. Being a very visual rather than auditory person I am more prone to like to read stuff rather than listen to it. However, there are definately positives to attending a poetry reading over reading the author's poetry by itself.

Regarding the quote at the beginning of this post. This was one line of Kate's that stuck out to me. I believe that she said it very nicely when she said that. It is indeed very true and I'll honestly say that I can't encorporate all of the thoughts that I have about what she said in the last bit of this review. Honestly, I could write a whole other blog on this subject and maybe I'll just have to do that at some point. But truly, Kate and all the other artists/poets were spectacular and it is sad that only one other classmate got to enjoy this event.