Oh, I don't know, I have always hated calling myself a 'poet' and thought from
the beginning that I disliked the whole idea and preferred to just say "I write
poetry" and still prefer that, the verb is much easier to bear than a noun,
best,
Rebecca
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:59:04 +0000
>From: Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: down with the down with poetry crowd
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>That does get us into an infinite regress, though. In order to be a
>poet, you have to be called a poet by other people who have been
>called poets by other people who have been called poets by other
>people who have been called poets, and so on.
>
>Was there an Original Poet? A sort of rogue analyst?
>
>Dominic
>
>On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:55:43 -0000, Douglas Clark
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> This argument is very interesting. But I wouldnt dream of calling myself a
>> poet, which it seems is what these MFA people do. That is for other people,
>> meaning poets, to decide.
>
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>// Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
>// bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
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