Well said, Joanna. I think many young poets try to overturn the tradition,
and in so doing extend it. (I use the example of jazz here.)
Andrew
On 15/10/2007, Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Given that we write either into or against a tradition, I don't see how we
> can avoid taking it into account.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Blinkin Sonnets!
>
>
> > Don't you think about the tradition you want to write into? I
> > certainly do, if I want to do such a thing. Maybe you consider such
> > thinking frivolous.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > On 10/14/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> In one hundred years we've gone from a poetic puritanism which
> >> condemned anything not traditional as frivolous to a poetic puritanism
> >> which condemns anything traditional as frivolous. Like some French
> >> guy once said, the more different something gets, the more it's the
> >> same damn thing.
> >>
> >> --
> >> ===================================
> >>
> >> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
> >>
> >> ===================================
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
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> > "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."
> > Roman Proverb
> >
>
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