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I need a book about sex, I think I might not be doing it correct and would like to gain some status in that area. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 25, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > But Doug, isn’t this “lack” of a definition just a relativistic > rationalisation (not from you, I stress) to allow non-poetry the sam > e "status" as poetry? > > As Bob said to Angel earlier, surely we need definitions and > classifications to talk intelligently about the subject. Of course, > we shouldn’t be too stringent in our definitions, but surely an all- > out relativistic taxonomy can’t be a good thing? > > > > Original Message: > > I suspect it's many things, & changes with whoever is making a > definition, yet, somehow or other, this sloppy set (or whatever the > term is) still has a hold on us, & we each of us thinks we know what > 'poetry' is. > > Every time I thought I had a definition that fit, I'd find something > that was outside the wall yet struck me, as yes, poetry.