We probably all want a one-stop-shopping list, but but but:
As Douglas Clark's post implicitly indicated, there are workshop-
oriented lists if that's what you want from one with "poetry" in
its name;
as Douglas Barbour pointed out, many among us are professionals
and more interested in poetry/poetics-related discussion than in
getting our poems critiqued, while still others (those least
likely to post a declaration of their own interests) joined this
list to network (get to know and be known by other poets), so may
not care what turns discussion takes;
and as Alison and Erminia both suggested in their different ways,
anything poets care passionately about is appropriate to discuss
on a poetry-discussion list. Those who've protested or otherwise
objected to the self/unself thread as somehow beside the point
must have missed the poems posted by Dom, Alison, and Erminia
in the course of what began with another poet's work--Rilke's
_Duino Elegies_ and Alison's forthcoming translation of it (to
which I, for one, am looking forward). The excerpt posted from
Alison's _Navigatio_ made me want to read the rest of it, and I
thought Erminia's "In Memoriam" a real knockout, while Dom's
poetry is always interesting, as far as I'm concerned.
So, where's the beef (apart from Scott's mad-cow anxieties,
which could make for a very bio-intense text if he did more
than "dribble" it down the poetryetc court)? Haven't we always
already been discussing poetry all along, except when interrupted
by sports bulletins from Melbourne? (No complaints about those?)
As for "a topical new project, 'The Olympic Poems,'" not, not
(since ancient Greek times, I'd have thought), but it's at least
a topic/potential project with wider appeal and relevance than
"bringing down the Howard Government" (surely that deserves a
list-site of its own!). Be interesting to see if listees rush to
the poetryetc barricades with biotexts now, in hopes of averting
a horde of Olympic poems....
Candice
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