> Sentimentality is difficult to define. But I know it when I see it. (I think!)
Sentimentality is crosseyed: it keeps one eye on the object of
emotion and the other on how our own response to that object is
affecting an audience.
> Not all highbrow practitioners are stuffy or academic,
> and not all lowbrow practitioners are ranting performance poets
I might be considered a stuffy performance poet.
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Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
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