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Yes, Mark, he does seem to have something of a fixation about the definition of the terms he is using being always fixed. And yes he does come across as if he's auditioning for academic employment all the time. --------------------------------------------------------- It's really pointless arguing with him. Seth is preoccupied with making himself the grand poobah of an academic (in the narrowest sense) concern of his own invention. Even in this tough job market it should land him a prestigious appointment. One of Seth's problems is that he seems unaware that the meanings of words change. When Olson and company referred to academic poetry, for instance, they weren't referring to either MA or MFA programs in creative writing--there were almost none of those to complain about--but academic as in pompiers. That was what us non-academic (in this sense) types meant by the term until say the last 15 years, when basic misunderstandings made the term more difficult to use. In that old sense some of what universities teach isn't academic poetry but most is.