On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Marjorie Perloff wrote:
>--pick your term of choice--
and also:
>there are mostly differences--and that's exciting.
yup. That's why I took to poetry, as opposed to, say, joining a choir,
where that feeling of association really counts. The rest, the
lumpenlangpo vs motleymainstream concept, is ok as a starting
generalisation from a great height but practically useless at ground
level. You say tomayto, I say tomarto, he/she/they over there use
completely other terms for practically the same fruit, and we'll all of us
remain suspicious of any attempt to stir us all into the same pot.
Why do my postings on this always turn into food analogies? Discuss.
RC
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