Andrew, remember what cummings was actually referring to?
(that's my joke)
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On 12/8/08 9:42 PM, "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ... more like 'sweet FA ...' Andrew
>
> 2008/8/12 kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>:
>> though maybe it isn't very descriptive of us as a group or as writers, as
>> such
>>
>> KS
>>
>> 2008/8/12 kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>> I would REALLY be into "sweet old etcetera"
>>>
>>> KS
>>>
>>> 2008/8/12 Glen Roy PHILLIPS <[log in to unmask]>
>>>
>>> What about cummings' "sweet old etcetera"?
>>>> Glen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/8/08 9:15 AM, "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Maybe that's it: A Dizzying Diversity of Cranky Selfhoods.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd be happy with that!
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew
>>>>>
>>>>> 2008/8/12 Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>>> I had a conversation the other night with an old and pragmatic friend
>>>> who
>>>>>> said, Alison, get people to advertise on your blog! make it earn some
>>>> money!
>>>>>> The fact is that I get regular requests for advertising, and I turn
>>>> them all
>>>>>> down - they'd spoil my lovely design...and it would change its nature
>>>>>> somehow. But it made me ponder why I spend so many hours of my life
>>>> doing
>>>>>> unpaid work. I suspect it's some kind of unconscious resistance to the
>>>>>> dominance of consumerist economies and values, the ideology where
>>>> everything
>>>>>> has a price. You have to eat and pay the rent, but it can't be
>>>> everything or
>>>>>> you're lost.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Worth remembering in the titling debate is that poetryetc represents a
>>>>>> dizzying diversity of cranky selfhoods. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway - must stop nattering and Get On With My Day.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:29 AM, David Bircumshaw <
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll try to say something: poetry is worthless, poetry is rubbish,
>>>>>>> that is why we love it. It is the most hopeless art of all, and its
>>>>>>> complete dysfunctional presence is its tatty validity. If we try to
>>>>>>> accommodate the accepted, in our words, in bland titles. we lose our
>>>>>>> cranky selfhoods, which at almost all costs we must maintain.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2008/8/12 Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>:
>>>>>>>>> let's throw the title open.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Um...nobody said it was closed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> However, as with Keats, so this anthology: we're still reading Keats,
>>>> and
>>>>>>>> what counts more than the title is the contents. And the contents
>>>> have
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> required oomph. I'm not too worried.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
>>>>>>>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>>>>>>>> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> David Bircumshaw
>>>>>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>>>>>>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>>>>>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>>>>>>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
>>>>>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>>>>>> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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