>
That's the entire definition--no other
>meanings.
Chris Hayden reiterates: If she is writing a legal brief, or an auto
mechanics manual or a giving me street directions. This is a poem. She can
give a word any meaning she wants to.
>
>2. Among the problems with the poem is its generality.
Chris Hayden replies: See the posting by CP dated Friday 2, Gebb 200l
11:58:09. Until the entire meeting place can be filled with persons
answering to the name and pedigree of Mark Weiss, the audience tastes and
venue must be considered. Until someone says otherwise, I hold that's what
influenced this choice
>
3. The poem brought back memories of pleasant childhood experiences for
>you. Proust ate a rather ordinary pastry and wrote Remembrance of Things
>Past. Your experience doesn't validate the poem's nutritional value any
>more than Proust's does that of the madeleine.
Chris Hayden replies: Some statements are inaccurate. Some are
illinformed. Some are just flat wrong. Three guesses which one yours is
and the first two don't count.>
>3
3. . One must have absolute loyalty to the practice. As poets it's what we
>live and die by, and we don't have much else to hang on to. Any poem that
>shirks that responsibility is an affront to all of us. Worth getting hot
>under the collar about. Chill out if you don't really care.
>
Chris Hayden: And when you become Czar of All Poetry with the power to
administer the extreme sanction, the lust for which I sense lurking behind
this missive, I suppose this will mean something to somebody. Now--maybe
I'll paraphrase Hemingway from THE SUN ALSO RISES--"It would be pretty to
think so"
>Mark
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