your lack of scope here is dangerous, kaspers... based on what i've read of
your insights into poetry, your opinions on the quality with a capital queue
of contemporary verse could be in question...
i want to know what's working... it's relatively easy to see what's not...
it's also easy to bury your head in the sands of tradition, but then what...
perhaps, then, we write our way out from the great dunes that possibly bury
some of us...
--
Bob Marcacci
The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with
one's preparation for it.
- David Searles
> From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:13:15 +0300
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: What is poetry?
>
> freeverse has
> taken over & eroded Quality to the extent that now any even mildly
> insightful-seeming prose cut into lines appears to gain accolades &
> sales.
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