A community of two, at least--writer and reader. Not to speak of all the
intermediaries. A no-brainer. The poem is en commun. And dialogue, at least
for the reader. He reads and has his response. The dialogue is more
metaphor in most cases for the poet. If you are the reader shouldn't the
poem be sufficient answer?
">15. Aren't the answers to a degree predetermined, perhaps coerced, by the
> way you frame your questions?
of course
>
> 12. By the terminology in which you cast them?
of course"
43. Isn't your establishment of the terms of the discussion a form of what
you call 'colonisation'?
44. What do you learn from answers determined by the agenda of the
questions? Is that dialogue?
39. Are there less intrusive ways to ask the questions that might be more
likely to elicit less predictable responses, perhaps even in the language
of the respondents?
At 08:11 PM 12/20/2000 +0000, you wrote:
>--On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:04 AM -0800 "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>> . As poetry is by definition about dialogue and community shouldn't
>> the poem be sufficient answer to the question?
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>is it?
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>jk
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