Lumpy pudding

Judging a poem is like judging a pudding or a machine. One demands that it work. Poetry succeeds because all or most of what is said or implied is relevant; what is irrelevant has been excluded, like lumps from pudding and 'bugs' from machinery. (Wimsatt & Beardsley)

Here we celebrate the excluded, lumpy parts of the pudding!

May 22, 2011 3:07pm

Langston Hughes: Misery - from Play de Blues (Six Poems), 1926

Aaron Douglas, ill

(Source: agooddaytodie)