joe, all else aside, that's one cracking poem
KS
On 09/06/07, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "Slumbrous" did her spirit steal.
> I had no earthy fears:
> For I stayed up this summer night
> Nursing just two beers
> And reading Shelley's letters
> And Dorothy Wordsworth's diary
> And packing up my sweaters
> For the lonesome highway.
> Farewell, anon! My Life, my Death!
> Now she is so free.
> A Gilthoniel Elbereth!
> The difference to me.
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> Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Alison Croggon has just signed off Poetryetc. Presumably everyone saw her
> farewell message. I would simply note that over the last 24 hours Alison
> insulted the entire list membership three times:
>
> 1. "I thought it was a given that no opinion rehearsed here has the
> imprimatur of Divine Right. I only claim my own sensibility. I have reasons
> for thinking as I do, and if questioned I will tell you what those reasons
> are. I thought that this process was known as "discussion"; and certainly
> during the many years I ran this list, it was described as a "discussion
> list". Perhaps things have changed while I was looking elsewhere."
>
> This came in as a response to an utterly inoffensive post that happened to
> take issue with something Alison had written.
>
> 2. "Slumbrous"
>
> That is Alison's characterization, just now, of this lively, interesting &
> unwieldy amalgam of personalities.
>
> 3. "[Poetryetc] seems to have become so closed."
>
> I hadn't noticed this new uptight & closed Poetryetc myself. Had you?
>
> To Alison's friends & admirers, I would say that I am sorry it came to this,
> but personally I found her bullying, hectoring style of argumentation, in
> which she simply waved away those who disagreed with her & then changed the
> subject or repeated what she had already said (at greater length) tiresome.
> I have seldom run across a more humorless personality online. I think she
> regretted giving up ownership of the list. I do not regret her decision to
> leave.
>
> Joseph Duemer
> Poetryetc Co-Mgr.
>
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