Oh and another thing!
I believe in poetry as a creative art rather than as a formal expression of
cultural values, you know, that worthwhile earnest, read quietly stuff that
would bore the balls off a concrete rabbit.
As a creative art poetry is the fire that develops and transforms language,
itself the stuff of culture. That's why poets, like other creative artists,
are always thought to be utter crap if they are any good at all. Tomorrow's
clichés today. The bottled stuff just doesn't refresh.
Don't get me started.
Regards
Tom
> I do tend
> to feel
> a wee bit modern
>
> And what's this "free verse" thing John?
>
> Regards
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Carley" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 7:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Punctuation
>
>
> > every comma starts a counter
> > clause, subclause, santaclause, subsanta, or elf stop.
> > the curse.
> >
> >
> >
> > I tend to agree with you Tom - certainly for free verse. I stole my own
> > style from a poet called Sean Burn (may he prosper). But such techniques
> > eats white space - and back when Caedmon was king of the sty the medium
> > cost more than the message.
> >
> > A profligate Scot? John
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