But I don't think there is really much difficulty separating good faith from bad L On 6 May 2014 16:52, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > When it's a contemporary & the plagiarist has done it to get something > published as his/her own (have there been many women who have done it?) > thenit seems futile bit of bad faith. > > But there's also Jonathan Lethem's take on how all art is a kind of > plagiarism; we can never write something completely 'new' or 'original'...? > > Doug > On May 5, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Laziness, panic, narcissism, low self-esteem, ambition, deliberate > self-sabotage: Why so many poets are plagiarizing... > > > > http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/247130 > > > > Ruth Graham: Word Theft: > > 2013 the year of the plagiarists > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Latest books: > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962 > Recording Dates > (Rubicon Press) > > would you > > care to be more > precise about whatever > it is you are > saying, I said > > Bill Manhire > > > > > > > > > > > >