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Quite off topic, but what the hell. I spent a very long acid trip with no company but my newly-purchased copy of The Opening of the Field. A great way to learn the music (and it was certainly visually-intriguing, what with the multicolored print and lines of verse snaking across the page, and the sense of creatures lurking just beyond the covers), tho I don't think my copious marginal notes would pass for useful commentary. Best, Mark At 10:25 AM 9/28/2009, you wrote: >Or: what speaks to me...? > >That Scarriet blog thing was fun enough I guess, but I agree with Mark >about the MFA development, & come back to the fact that a lot of >poetry in the 20th century just never had that large an audience (& >we're not really sure how huge it ever was). So one is left with a >more complex question, which is why a person (say me) came across, oh, >just as an example, The Opening of the Field or O Taste and See (or in >Canada, Naked Poems), & was deeply moved by the poetry within their >covers. Enough, let's say, to seek to learn more, about how to read & >how to write something along those lines.... > >And who then doesnt really give a damn what anyone has to say about >the 'profession' beyond continuing to read & write a lot, & choose the >poems (the poets) who continue to move me... > >Of course, there's all the 'politics' but surely that's all secondary >at best.... > >Doug >On 27-Sep-09, at 6:06 PM, Desmond Swords wrote: > >>I suppose it all boils down to who has the most persuasive >>definition of the >>eternal chestnut: 'what is poetry?' >> >>The answer for most of us of course, being: >> >>'what me and my freinds write.' > >Douglas Barbour >[log in to unmask] > >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > >Latest books: >Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >Wednesdays' >http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > >Take away my wisdom and my categories! > > Phyllis Webb