She's apparently written some pretty bad ones, too. Is her palette
always so pastel?
At 04:26 PM 3/15/2007, you wrote:
>Geez, she's a fairly well known Canadian poet, who has written some
>fairly good poems, actually.
>
>You didnt mention ' And though the heart is small / and cramped',
>Fred: I am surprised....
>
>Doug
>On 15-Mar-07, at 11:09 AM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
>
>>Poetry Daily: Sue Sinclair, "Surrender"I just had to share this -
>>today's offering from www.poems.com. I was so overcome that I
>>wrote the following pointless note to the editors:
>>I just want to say how much I enjoyed Sue Sinclair's poem
>>"Surrender." It is a superb, even an archetypical, example of The
>>Mainstream Poem. It has Light - twice - and the Heart, and Love,
>>and Your Own Wants, and the Real, and even, for no extra cost, the
>>Self! And a very sweet metaphoric Horsey, which must appeal to the
>>pubescent girl in all of us. Looking at "Surrender," any poet
>>burdened with an excess of testosterone or originality can only
>>ask: How can I compete with work of this caliber?
>>
>>
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>Fame tends to be a lot of shits
>thinking you're no longer a threat.
>
> Valerie Raworth
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