Oh, I do lyrics too, often because I have to. Though the ones that sell are almost all epigrams and other light verse. That Auden is my favorite recently dead poet fits this, I think. (Other favored deads are Ovid and Ariosto; same consonance.) Favored live is Richard Wilbur.
I used to write mostly in blank verse, until I (finally!) learned how to rhyme a few years ago. Since then, I've mostly been working in stanzas — as much, now, because I'm still teaching myself how to use them well — or couplets. A couple of stories I have in mind for down the road will likely be blank verse (won't know for sure, of course, until I try them and see).
I am curious, btw, what collection you were talking about.
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Date: 2004-06-19 08:16 am (UTC)I used to write mostly in blank verse, until I (finally!) learned how to rhyme a few years ago. Since then, I've mostly been working in stanzas — as much, now, because I'm still teaching myself how to use them well — or couplets. A couple of stories I have in mind for down the road will likely be blank verse (won't know for sure, of course, until I try them and see).
I am curious, btw, what collection you were talking about.
---L.