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This was a response to Steven vincents manipulating the moderation to make it look the way he wants it too... Please remove me from the list and show what I originally posted that wasn't nearly as offensive and was not allowed through That wasn't meant towards you Doug Sent from my iPhone On Apr 25, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Wait Wait! > > I took Angel's original post as a joke about definitions, but now, > Angel, youre getting carried away. Lets just let it go, please? > > Doug > On 25-Apr-10, at 2:52 PM, Angel wrote: > >> Did you delete me yet you cock sucker? >> >> Or are you going to rob me of that too? >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 25, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >>> Angel, your message request is not appropriate to this list. >>> Please refrain or the exit is not far away. >>> >>> Back to poetry, please. >>> >>> Stephen Vincent >>> >>> --- On Sun, 4/25/10, Angel <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> From: Angel <[log in to unmask]> >>> Subject: Re: Adventurous rejected: Magma Blog >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 12:56 PM >>> >>> 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 same "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. >> > > 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 > > The secret > > I was immediately set upon by two or three > critics, who hurled sophistries and > maledictions at me that were astonishing > in their dimness. > > Jorge Luis Borges