Leia atentamente o poema abaixo e responda:
Upon reading a critical review
it’s difficult to accept
and you look around the room
for the person they are talking
about.
he’s not there.
he’s not here.
he’s gone.
by the time they get your book you
are no longer your
book.
you are on the next page,
the next
book.
and worse,
they don’t even get the old books right.
you are given credit for things you don’t deserve, for insights that aren’t
there.
people read themselves into books, altering what they need and discarding what they
don’t.
good critics are as rare as good
writers.
and whether I get a good review or a
bad one
I take neither
seriously.
I am on the next page,
the next book.
(Charles Bukowski. Betting on the Muse - Poems and Stories, BlackSparrow Press, 1996.)
a) De acordo com os versos de upon reading a critical review, tanto o poeta quanto sua obra estão sempre, de certo modo, fora do alcance da crítica. Por quê?
b) Que tipo de crítico literário é levado a sério pelo poeta?
c) A que se referem os pronomes you (na primeira estrofe) e he (na segunda estrofe)?