And no, I don't like PRISONERS (wouldn't know where to put them), still some
due cleaning up would be good to brighten out the day and get together
instead of being continuously torn apart.
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: Academic Verse
> cris
>
> yes, yes, being mediocre is primarily uninteresting
>
> apart from asking - how come that clever / gifted / interesting person
> failed to deliver
>
> making an impact on you, me, selected others is interesting from my p o v;
> making an impact in some places is not necessarily being interesting to me
>
> a highwayman came riding and adelstrop however you spell it have made a
big
> impact on Poetry Pleas for instance
>
> not that i dont like both to some degree, the latter particularly, but
only
> in a flanders and swan sort of way, and not all the time - it gets like
the
> peacock novel and the garden designed to surprise
>
> speaking of which, given your sartorial position, peacocks are selling
> boxers 2 for 1
>
> and its worth looking at stead and simpson's sale if you've got a boot
> mender who will strengthen them - by such means does one remain an artist
> and eating
>
> Anny - get well soon - know what you mean. You dont take prisoners, do
you?
> I'm not sure I go all the way with that...
>
> or maybe I do
>
> It's a view of the artist which hasn't always applied - maybe it should
have
> done
>
> ... PLEASE WAIT...
>
> a-ciao
>
> L
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cris cheek <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 08 February 2005 13:58
> Subject: Re: Academic Verse
>
>
> >quite right
> >
> >although i would understand being interesting AS making an impact
> >
> >bit of a skewing there, although i understand what you're saying when
> >you read it thata way around, i still intend that as above. As i would
> >also read the other the other way around, that being mediocre is not
> >being very interesting. I mean, mediocrity is perhaps of some interest,
> >but not by much. I'm not wearing underwear today so the twist isn't
> >punishing me.
> >
> >
> >
> >On 8 Feb 2005, at 13:17, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> >
> >> Hang on
> >>
> >> Not making an impact and not being very interesting and not
> >> necessarily the
> >> same thing
> >> Not being very interesting is not the same thing as being mediocre /
> >> incompetent
> >>
> >> Making an impact is partly a curatorial function; and a failure to
> >> make an
> >> impact may be to do with others manipulating the exchanges of poetics
> >> into a
> >> market biased towards themselves
> >>
> >> Otherrwise, er, yes
> >>
> >> L
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cris cheek <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Date: 08 February 2005 12:15
> >> Subject: Re: Academic Verse
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> There have
> >>> always been lots of not very interesting poets and there will continue
> >>> to be. From a given group of arts students, historians, writers,
> >>> philosophers, chemists &c very few will go on to make any impact upon
> >>> their field of enthusiasm, don't you think. So, why the problem
> >>> specifically with artists and poets? So, there is a lot of mediocre
> >>> competency about. That's no bad thing - or is it?
> >>>
> >>> love and love
> >>> cris
> >>>
> >>
> >
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