repeat : with which we are unfamiliar...
(though shutting upwould not be a bad idea)
SallyE
on 18/11/02 12:29 am, grasshopper at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> Dear Sally,
>
> <<because you were using different approaches to poetry with which we
> are unfamiliar in the western academic poetry tradition.>>
>
> I don't know why you seem to assume that you are the only one au fait with
> these traditions. But, of course, if you are the only one qualified to
> comment, the rest of us had better shut up, so you can explain what's what
> to us.
> Kind regards,
> grasshopper
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 12:15 AM
> Subject: wayfarer discussion
>
>
>> Could I congratulate Karina on starting one of the longest discussions on
>> this list in the last year.
>>
>> There are 55 posts on the subject in my inbox and I have deleted quite a
>> few.
>>
>> I think this has to be because it is a striking poem, Karina, and many
>> people didn't give you the credit you deserve for knowing what you were
>> doing, because you were using different approaches to poetry with which we
>> are unfamiliar in the western academic poetry tradition.
>>
>> People even made the extraordinary mistake of assuming you were a
>> 'beginner'!
>>
>> Your approaches ar valid, Karina, and it makes me realise how much needed
>> such lists as John Carley's 'WHCpoetrybridge' list are, in which the
> attempt
>> is made to bridge the gap between the western and haiku poetry traditions.
>>
>> Listening is needed from both sides of this divide.
>>
>> bw
>> SallyE
>>
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