Thanks for the Emily child abuse explanation in your preceding email, Sweet P. I rather liked being innocent of it, tho, come to think of it.
While I warm considerably to your suggestions of other than "good/bad" categories, I do wonder about the "good/bad" and would enjoy folks' answers to the perennial questions of what "works" in poems and why it works. But Oh groan and heavyburdening-----it might become one of those boring pedantic debatey threads. YAK! Forget my wonderings; I'll just go have breakfast. No, no! I'll write a poem about eggs! Yes, that's it, EGGS!!!
your devoted fan who hangs on your every......(bleep)
joodles
---- Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Was very cheered by this -also perhaps poetry can be just what one does
> -like compulsive/creative/play/fun/getting by sort/Type of thing
> Cheers P
> Perhaps more categories than simple good/bad like relevant whatever
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Wolman
> Sent: 21 August 2007 05:00
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> Subject: Re: collage poetry
>
> TheOldMole wrote:
> >
> > I asked how can you ever be sure
> > that what you write is really
> > any good at all and he said you can't
> >
> > you can't you can never be sure
> > you die without knowing
> > whether anything you wrote was any good
> > if you have to be sure don't write
>
> The God's honest truth. Not because you can but because you fear you can't.
>
> k
>
> --------------------
> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good
> We'll do the best we know.
> We'll build our house and chop our wood
> And make our garden grow...
>
> Bernstein/Wilbur, "Candide"
>
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