I'll have to try to read this at some other time, but generally tend to
agree with his larger take that these attempts at genre definition
almost always fail -- when another text come along that pushes the
boundaries beyond what any one definition allows. I've certainly always
found that a whole slew of narratives seem to belong more or less
together, whether or not they'd marketed as this or that.
Since markets don't much matter for poetry, well, neither do strict
definitions, even as, as a writer, I will tend to think that what I do
fits best <g> whatever even 'fat' definitions 'we' seem to be
accepting....
Doug
On 6-Mar-07, at 3:58 PM, meikamonagmail wrote:
> for those looking for a break from hockey try the bloggery on fat
> fantasy and strange fiction...
>
> http://notesfromthegeekshow.blogspot.com/
>
> quite long posts, but I then am thinking lyrical novel length poems, a
> biblical schedule for worldbuilding, perhaps written in pantoums
>
> another life, another time
>
> meika
> http://meika.loofs-samorzewski.com
>
>
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