Dear Hugh & Joe,
Wasn't I trying to say something about this in the rest of the email or
indeed in the rest of that sentence? If you think not, or if your positions
are different again, let's discuss that a little more than below.
Best,
Willtam
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: poets who eschew clarity
> Joe doesn't either.
>
> Hugh Tolhurst wrote:
>
> > Really a reply to willtam Herbert, who wrote:-
> >
> > We all seem to agree that the purpose of a poem is to communicate,
> >
> > hugh doesn't.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Roddy Lumsden <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: Poetryetc <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 10:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: poets who eschew clarity
> >
> > >
> > > >Roddy invited comment on the "laziness and bad manners" of poets who
> > eschew
> > > >clarity. I'd say it was more a fault of ego than of laziness and bad
> > > >manners.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hang on a minute, before this becomes a chinese whisper - that sounds
like
> > > it's my 'soundbite'. I was inviting comment from a specific poet, who
had
> > > expressed this opinion. I've a lot of time for clarity, but I like a
bowl
> > > of minestrone now and then, just as much as I like consommé.
> > >
> > > Roddy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> ________________________
> Joseph Duemer
> School of Liberal Arts-5750
> Clarkson University
> Potsdam NY 13699
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>
> "Always come down from the barren heights
> of cleverness into the green valleys of folly."
> ::Wittgenstein
>
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