A Real Time of It

Poetry. "It's difficult to say just how one knows that a certain person's poems are the result of much hard work, and it's as difficult to say just how one knows that a writer took great pleasure in the act of composition. But we've all seen enough smug, dull poems come down the pike to know what lazy, bored poets produce, and so perhaps we assume diligence and enthusiasm simply by way of our own great pleasure in having worked through a particular poem or set of them."—Graham Foust