11/9

What I think Jackson Maclow is trying to say in Poetry and Pleasure is that you should just create for the sake of creation, not to please anyone or for any other particular reason. He also writes about the pleasures (and pain) that it can bring to you and the audience of said work. I agree with most of what he writes, especially what he says about audiences and pleasure being based on preference. There is no one who can create the “perfect” art work, that will appeal to everyone. I also noticed that his poetry works are very similar to that of the surrealists.