> Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 17:18:35 +0100> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: what is it?> To: [log in to unmask]> > Poetry is what scares friends off> P> > -----Original Message-----> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On> Behalf Of andrew burke> Sent: 20 May 2008 04:39> To: [log in to unmask]> Subject: what is it?> > *From Poetry Daily* -> > On Tuesday we (Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com/) continue our series of> prose features with "What Is It Anyway," from *Quote Poet Unquote:> Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry*, edited by *Dennis O'Driscoll*,> just out from Copper Canyon Press:> > "Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley."> -*Charles Simic*> > "Poetry is energy, it is an energy-storing and an energy-releasing device."> -*Miroslav Holub*> > "Poetry is the eroticization of thought-psychic vitality."> -*Cal Bedient*> > "A poem... is the attire of feeling: the literary form where words seem> tailor-made for memory or desire."> -*Carol Ann Duffy*> > *From me:*> > Please - contribute your own!> > -- > Andrew> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/> > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.> Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1432 - Release Date: 14/05/2008> 07:49> > > No virus found in this incoming message.> Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1464 - Release Date: 5/24/2008> 8:56 AM
poetry is the sound of tomorrow's long-tailed tit nesting in your candy-floss
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