KS's response was political, despite his best intentions... taking a stand
must be...
not saying something with a poem? an appalling thought... i think more
highly of my audience... and i'm not talking about academic, honey-stealing,
heffalumps...
is it enough of a goal to write something pretty? what is that saying?
--
Bob Marcacci
Everything considered, work is less boring than
amusing oneself.
- Charles Baudelaire
> From: Heather Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:08:32 -0000
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: poem
>
> I wonder - if you're not saying something with a poem (and I'm not meaning
> something political, but anything) - why are you writing it? Just to make
> pretty / clever words on a piece of paper?
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