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Subject:

Re: The suckability of contemporary American poetry

From:

Rebecca Seiferle <[log in to unmask]>

Reply-To:

Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics <[log in to unmask]>

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Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:14:16 -0500

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Oh great, and I thought I just had a cold!

R
---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:55:17 -0800
>From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: The suckability of contemporary American poetry
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Conway is related to Edison, but I think the electricity is turned off.
>Last time I saw Conway here in California, it was on the side of a truck.
>Somehow the truck got turned into a cold virus called Conway which means
>they now screw with your breath, like Reagan's Contras, hired viral agents
>that fuckup and challenge the soul.
>S
>
>
>> Hey, Stephen, any ideas, just where is Conway anyway? I've been driving all
>> day,
>> in loop de loops, down State 60 and I can't find it anywhere! it must be like
>> "Main Street" in these MA towns which runs from Waltham to Watertown to
>> Newton and probably extends into Canada for all I know. Though I'm glad to
say
>> I found my copies of Heaney's _Spirit Level_ and _The Haw Lantern_ for
Mairead
>> and my zinc lozenges for my cold.
>>
>> toodaloo,
>>
>> Rebecca
>>
>>
>> ---- Original message ----
>>> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:54:09 -0800
>>> From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Subject: Re: The suckability of contemporary American poetry
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> Rebecca, this is getting gnaw-sucking too good, too much, and I am going
to
>>> gnaw out here and suck on a lozenge to breakup this Conway attack on
local
>>> internal systems.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>>
>>> Stephen V
>>>
>>>> There, there, Mairead, calm thyself,
>>>> I'm sure it'll be ok as "as long as you drive with your brain
>>>> engaged" and don't suck the roof off that Pink Adobe
>>>> "located 7 miles west of conway on state 60"; Those serious guys
>>>> are sure to come back and in the meanwhile, I'm sure I can find
>>>> a spirit level or an old haw lantern somewhere for you to gnaw anyway
>>>>
>>>> gnaw is a nice thing
>>>> gnaw is ok
>>>> gnaw is a heavy act
>>>> gnaw is a critigue of the male dominance in minimalism
>>>> gnaw is a grim reality metal band from tampa florida
>>>> gnaw is a dark power trio from tampa
>>>> gnaw is good
>>>> gnaw is a "feminist" statement
>>>> gnaw is satisfied
>>>> gnaw is to confine it to a rabbit
>>>> gnaw is in the dictionary
>>>> gnaw is strong
>>>> gnaw is nat rabb
>>>> gnaw is where a boar bruin stands on hind legs and reaches up to claw
the
>> tree
>>>> trunk and leave a sign for other bear ? itıs similar to a buck deer making
>>>> gnaw is a duo from the tampa area
>>>> gnaw is okay
>>>> gnaw is a patrol officer in sowerby bridge with 15 years service in the
>>>> police
>>>> gnaw is not
>>>> gnaw is my little electronic music project
>>>> gnaw is just the branches and rain at your door
>>>> gnaw is better than their 1994 release era
>>>> gnaw is only standard
>>>> gnaw is a monolith of 275kg of chocolate and another of lard
>>>> gnaw is the hated medicine
>>>> gnaw is tussling with rhino
>>>> gnaw is still standing next to sky lynx
>>>> gnaw is an essential physiological and behavioral need for rats
>>>> gnaw is very pleasing
>>>> gnaw is a grim
>>>> gnaw is so great that they will even chew on electrical wires and cause
>>>> fires
>>>> gnaw is representing the state law
>>>> gnaw is involved
>>>> gnaw is undue to wonderful specs then we must continue the process of
>>>> knitting and inlaying prospects in the dew of each
>>>> gnaw is sharp corporation's two page "digital site survey / systems
>>>> integration
>>>> questionnaire
>>>> gnaw is representing the state law and order restoration council for the
>>>> second
>>>> time as "guest of the host country" at this year's
>>>> gnaw
>>>> nah, nah, nah,
>>>>
>>>> Rebecca
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---- Original message ----
>>>>> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 00:07:34 -0500
>>>>> From: Mairead Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> Subject: Re: The suckability of contemporary American poetry
>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
>>>>> This is driving me MAD! I'm going to throw myself at the roof of a
>>>>> house and SUCK it right off!! Jeepers. I bow out of this discussion.
>>>>> I'm scared of the way it's heading.
>>>>> Mammy! Bring back the serious guys. They don't make everything
>>>>> disintegrate! they consolidate! Give me an old haw lantern or a spirit
>>>>> level and I'll gnaw at it anyway.
>>>>> Mmmm
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [log in to unmask] 01/03/05 12:02 AM >>>
>>>>> Jeeps, jeex, jeez, we all better get a grip!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Googlism for: suckability
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about suckability yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> However,
>>>>>
>>>>> suck is better
>>>>> suck is to save
>>>>> suck is entitled to a vacation?
>>>>> suck is written by a guest reporter who's made simple
>>>>> suck is a popular site on the internet
>>>>> suck is over
>>>>> suck is right
>>>>> suck is what suck is
>>>>> suck is to
>>>>> suck is like the web; engaging
>>>>> suck is to feed a local inn or cnews server
>>>>> suck is the much needed
>>>>> suck is a card carrying member
>>>>> suck is the middle of the afternoon or later
>>>>> suck is not very likely as long as you drive with your brain engaged
>>>>> suck is seeking a drummer
>>>>> suck is greater than this value
>>>>> suck is the measurement upon which they are based
>>>>> suck is regarded as an excellent mixed fishery
>>>>> suck is to install a new chain
>>>>> suck is a very real one and is costing our businesses big time
>>>>> suck is a concept album
>>>>> suck is at the centerpiece of the sammysoft rating system
>>>>> suck is fairly short
>>>>> suck is a set9
>>>>> suck is connected to the following things
>>>>> suck is connected to because
>>>>> suck is now an independent subsidy of hotwired
>>>>> suck is
>>>>> suck is something that happens mostly on mountain bikes that are
ridden
>>>>> a lot
>>>>> suck is available from the barnes & noble professional
>>>>> suck is a utility which allows downloading of selected news groups to a
>>>>> local
>>>>> server via an nnrp feed; this is useful if your provider does not allow
>>>>> pull
>>>>> suck is up
>>>>> suck is a set9 productions inc
>>>>> suck is not the newsmagazine for you
>>>>> suck is that we have generalized too far in our treatment of christians
>>>>> suck is ridiculous
>>>>> suck is a term that describes a complex set of events inside the baby's
>>>>> mouth
>>>>> suck is ignoring a huge profit center and denying the masses their
>>>>> loser to
>>>>> laugh at
>>>>> suck is just a loser
>>>>> suck is on the cd as a rpm package
>>>>> suck is sold
>>>>> suck is part of automatic media
>>>>> suck is not a craft based company
>>>>> suck is a netmoguls comic pictures
>>>>> suck is dedicated to helping the newly banned through their moment of
>>>>> crisis
>>>>> suck is a wonderful release with many talented artists
>>>>> suck is dead and the corpse is stinking
>>>>> suck is the major issue when you experience it
>>>>> suck is using frames
>>>>> suck is a site worth learning from
>>>>> suck is some 8oo metres
>>>>> suck is located 7 miles west of conway on state 60 then
>>>>> suck is that suck is no more
>>>>> suck is clearly disapproved of
>>>>> suck is a daily e
>>>>> suck is gone
>>>>> suck is wisely purple
>>>>> suck is vercingetorix
>>>>> suck is the musical entity that is primarily piloted by the sleepwalker
>>>>> suck is right tuk
>>>>> suck is loved by everyone from rolling stone to the
>>>>> suck is based on the idea that you can learn good design by looking at
>>>>> bad
>>>>> design
>>>>> suck is neither a fish
>>>>> suck is present in all infants
>>>>> suck is to call attention to the horns
>>>>> suck is a singularly useful word
>>>>> suck is more than a media prank
>>>>> suck is cookin
>>>>> suck is different; he cuddles more and even pulls away during the
>>>>> strong flow
>>>>> of a let down
>>>>> suck is its attitude
>>>>> suck is the first movie in the history of cinema to premiere over the
>>>>> internet in
>>>>> a digital
>>>>> suck is an original online magazine of humor
>>>>> suck is a bit like that as far as web sites go
>>>>>
>>>>> Rebecca
>>>>> ---- Original message ----
>>>>>> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 23:13:42 -0500
>>>>>> From: Mairead Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: The suckability of contemporary American poetry
>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Who the heck is Joe??? tell me!!! Help. What's happening???? Where
>>>>> am
>>>>>> I??
>>>>>> Is it 1999 yet??? Jeepers Creepers. What the hell's happening
>>>>> here????
>>>>>> Mairead
>>>>>>>>> [log in to unmask] 01/02/05 10:40 PM >>>
>>>>>> I am real lost, or this thread has lost me. For awhile I got the
>>>>>> impression
>>>>>> the focus was on suckable mints somehow conflated into a Mintie
poetry
>>>>>> magazine that Mairead at some point graced, but this was after
episodes
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> discussing whether or not Joe had suckered us with his parodies
(during
>>>>>> which I remember falling asleep, not suckering or getting suckered by
>>>>>> any of
>>>>>> it), and now I am trying to figure out if what will come up now - under
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> 'suckability' rubric - is if we are going down some rarely chartered,
>>>>>> perhaps totally new poetrylistserv history on or as to who - among
>>>>>> poets, I
>>>>>> assume - has the ability to suck (as a negative, critical consequence
>>>>> in
>>>>>> his/her own poems, or as in the action of something more intimate,
to
>>>>>> what
>>>>>> or whom or how, I cannot imagine), yet to talk about it as in matters
>>>>> of
>>>>>> content, technique, and qualities - which I guess - we, as poet tasters
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> are either already expert or will become so during the ensuing
>>>>>> discussion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am I still totally off track. Whatever it is, purrhaps I am ready to
>>>>>> hear
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stephen V
>>>>>> Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ok, I'm praying too, you must be at the breaking point over
>>>>>> 'suckableness'
>>>>>>> since you misspelled your own name! so, yes, the new poetics of
>>>>>> suckability,
>>>>>>> it is, amen, amen, amen...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rebeeca
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---- Original message ----
>>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 21:29:38 -0500
>>>>>>>> From: Mairead Byrne <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: The suckability of contemporary American poetry
>>>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Okay people I can't stand misreading that suckableness any more
so
>>>>>> I'm
>>>>>>>> changing the subject line to suckability. Which sounds miles more
>>>>>>>> competent & enticing on my view, as philosophers say. Let's hope
>>>>>>>> suckability takes off, Please God please God please God....
>>>>>>>> Mairaed
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> [log in to unmask] 01/02/05 5:30 PM >>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Mairead,
>>>>>>>> Hey Jill Thank You! Happy New Year!

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