>From: "Ally Kerr" <[log in to unmask]>
>I don't know if people would be up for posting critiques
> of one person's work to the whole list unless they
>loved it unconditionally though - maybe they'd be less
> embarrassed backchannelling it (I'm figuring out the
>jargon). It's such a sensitive area. If you criticise
> someone who isn't on the list (like because they're
>dead) you'll probably get your head bitten off by some
> annoyed soul, so who's going to query even a word
>written by the named and living?
>
I learned a long time ago that if you're going to get upset because what
you write is criticized then you've got no business writing at all.
If adverse criticism is suppressed, including if it's suppressed because
people respond to it by acting hurt, then we might as well give up, since
our dialog is not going to rise above the level of "Gee, this pome shows you
are a warm caring human bean."
(Maybe I should give a demo by posting some verses likely to prompt howls
of outrage, derision, or both. I seem to be good at that.)
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All poetry is difficult to read,
-- The sense of it, anyhow.
Browning
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