I don't refuse to distinguish poetry from anything else.
I'm not claiming any honours. I am not seeking anything
As I have said before, we shall not agree because we are starting from such different positions. I am trying hard to find a metaphor to help you; but I am so out of empathywith you - as it seems to be - that I cannot find one
I do not want to distinguish between poetry and prose. Not as you distinguish them.
It's a distinction I accept.
L
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From: Marcus Bales <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: FW: any formalists in the crowd? -- thanks to Annie Finch!
Sure -- or poetry. But it's a meaningless claim to claim it's poetry where
poetry and prose are the same thing. There is no honorific to it, you see!
What's the honor in claiming to be a poet where a poet is just a prose
writer by a different name? What does it get you to call yourself a poet
when you refuse to distinguish poetry from anything else?
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