Mjay, that's right on the money. Thanks.
Andrew
On 18/03/07, MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> And, to cite Groucho, love goes out the door when money comes innuendo.
> mjay
>
> Halvard Johnson wrote:
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> > Politics doesn't need to sneak in if the world
> > of language is one's playground.
> >
> > Hal
> >
> > "Poetic statements are no more actual statements
> > than the peaches visible in a still life are actual dessert."
> > --Susanne K. Langer
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
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> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
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> >
> > On Mar 17, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, I agree, Hal, but am always surprised by how much whatever one
> >> does ends up saying anyway. And maybe that's one of the ways that
> >> old 'politics' sneaks in...
> >>
> >> Still, I always remember Auden, of all people!, talking about
> >> starting a college for poets, & saying he'd have only one questions
> >> for candidates: why do you want to write poetry? If they said they
> >> wanted to tell people something, he'd tell them to go to journalism
> >> school. If they said they liked playing with words, liked playing
> >> with sound, liked to see what would happen when they played with
> >> words on a page. then he'd tell them there might be hope for them.
> >>
> >> I like that story.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On 16-Mar-07, at 11:25 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >>> I, for one, don't think poetry ought to say anything.
> >>> "If you want a message, go to Western Union," as
> >>> some Hollywood mogul (Louis Mayer?) once said.
> >>> Poetry, I think, should aim for the same sort of
> >>> non-discursive quality that music has. Poems, of
> >>> course, may seem to "say something," but messages
> >>> are way secondary to everything else that poetry is
> >>> and can do. (And I won't begin to get into that.)
> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
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> >>
> >> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> >>
> >>
> >> Readers -- what are they? My books
> >> proliferate and are as if they never were.
> >>
> >> Cid Corman
> >
> >
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> lies. - Kenneth Rexroth
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