The Art of Finding by Lisa Gregg was really interesting to read. I had never heard of her before I read this essay. I agree with her in a lot of parts of her essay like in the beginning when she talks about how poems are found not written also I think she's right about the fact that how when she says "the dance of language is what the poem discovers deeper down than gracefulness and a pleasure of figure of speech". I think she has a lot of wise things to say and I love how she uses all these great metaphors to convey her message. She talks about poetry workshops and what they have to do to become effective and stuff like that. I like when she was describing when she was up in the mountains with her twin sister and with her father. It sounded so beautiful up there and I love being up in the mountains so it brought back a lot of good memories.
             Subject matter to me is important because it gets you thinking about what you want to write about like let's say that my subject matter is dancing. When I think about dancing I think about everything that has to do with it and then I narrow it down and make it into just the basic points that I can use for the poem I'm writing. I also felt that she was contradicting herself at one point when she first says that a good poet should use experience as their sources of feelings and expressions and then she says that "certainly one can make good poems without feeling much or discovering anything new, like people who write villanelles".
             I guess I'd elaborate on that point more if I knew what villanelles meant.
             She makes you feel comfortable because she speaks to you in a conversational tone rather than in a more professional tone of voice like when she says "Having said that, let me now speak of two aspects of this finding before my time runs out".
             Overall I really truly enjoyed reading this essay, it was a lot
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