Hmmnn, but it seems we do, care that is.
I tend to join you in thinking that each of us chooses how 'we' hear
each term & judge it. I'm not sure 'craft' is negative, though; it
certainly is not, to me. Nut, then, neither is 'technique'. Since I
would want to argue, in any art, that one needs to learn/use both.
Doug
On 23-Jun-09, at 5:39 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
> Come on, we're poets, we should know how undependable words can be.
> I really don't care, especially about the word 'craft' - its
> connotations are nearly always negative because of the ideological
> way the concept gets used.
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