>From: Candice Ward <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: HG my name JG my game
>Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 17:54:31 -0400
>
>on 8/3/01 4:46 PM, sevanthi ragunathan at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > It must be you who doesn't want responses to your remarks, since you're
>the
> > one "giving up". As a pose, it at least has the merit of reducing the
> > demand on someone else's attentions, and for that I suppose I should
>express
> > my gratitude.
> >
> > Or, more briefly, ::::oh, brother::::.
>
>
> Own your words, sister, own your words!
>
>Which is to say, please don't post excerpts and then respond to comments on
>them with something along the lines of "you wouldn't say that if you'd read
>the whole thing." No fair--Candice
I would hardly be so naive as to put any limits on what you would say. My
point was actually "you wouldn't say that if you parsed his comments
properly, and perhaps some context would help you do so." To disagree with
his assessment of Graham is one thing, to say that this is evidence that he
opposes philosophical poems is just absurd.
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