I hate to sound negative, but I'm with you two on this one. This sounds a bit much like a Spiro Agnew speech . . .
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DATE: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:48:51
From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
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>Dear Sue,
>I'm afraid I'm completely with you.
>Poetry to me is so much about the right word in the right place, and here I
>am just not convinced by most of the words chosen, which appear to me to
>have been selected so as to provide incongruous or impenetrable
>combinations.
>And it seems to me to be heavily over-modified.
>Just not my cup of tea, I'm afraid.
>Kind regards,
> grasshopper
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sue Scalf" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 6:01 PM
>Subject: Re: [THE-WORKS] ABOUT THE WATERFRONT
>
>
>> Actually, I will tell the truth: this made not a whit of sense to me, and
>I
>> could forget it as readily I could some simple greeting card (which is
>just
>> long enough to read it). If this is postmodernist, then I am aware why I
>rarely
>> relate to postmodernist poetry. Sorry to be so blunt, but sometimes a
>bludgeon
>> can do the job much more mercifully than a tiny stiletto, and there is
>little
>> to be gained by the stiletto here.
>> Sue P.S. I can always be wrong.
>>
>
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