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Ah, you're a good sport as well as a good empiricist, jEd--and I'll be sure to send my very next centered poem to you--Candice P.S. Mind the barn door now, somebody seems to have left it wide open.... At 05:23 PM 7/11/00 -0400, you wrote: >Well, Candice, you know me, always the good empiricist. My observation was based >on ten years of opening the mail that comes to me as poetry editor of The Wallace >Stevens Journal. So perhaps I should have said more clearly what I meant, to wit: >"when I open a poetry submission & find center-justified text, I know for a fact >. . ." I haven't been wrong yet, though I have myself written center-justified >poems (for I also had my reasons). I'm glad you sent your poem to Kinsella, >though, not to me, thus keeping my record intact. Anyway, as a good empiricist, I >intended to make no claims that couldn't be supported by experience & I don't >think I did. > >Mr. Ed. > >[log in to unmask] wrote: > >> Boy, are these words going to come back to haunt you boys >> (Mr. Eds.?) with a vengeance! And I hope at least one of you >> already regrets expressing such an unquantifiable notion of >> personal taste as this one in such terms as "I know for a >> fact" (come on). >> >> And that's without even getting into the (to me, obnoxious) >> condescension of your joint and separate tone. >> >> Whew, >> >> Candice >> >> P.S. Without making any claims for the greatness of my own poetry, >> I'll add only that I've been writing and publishing it for over 30 >> years and, just a couple of months ago, wrote my first-ever centered >> poem (I had my reasons!), which will appear in a forthcoming issue of >> _Stand_. >> >> P.P.S. I didn't write it in the female voice, though, whatever that >> is.... %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%