Some of us write great poetry all the time but who are too modest to say so!
P 'umble P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 20 March 2010 17:31
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Subject: Re: 25 questions: question # 3...
There are lots of answers to this, aren't there, from denying the validity
of terms like 'great poetry' to (excuse me, rummage in the hat) such as
(masculine grammatic form used as common pronoun in this):
Nobody at time realised the poet had written a great work, including the
poet. He therefore returned to his former career as a road-sweeper,
enumerating rubber ducks in his dreams at night.
On 20 March 2010 16:35, Patrick McManus
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Excuses excuses
> Excuses excuses
> Excuses excuses
> Excuses excuses
> Excuses excuses
> Etc
> Love P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Judy Prince
> Sent: 19 March 2010 16:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: 25 questions: question # 3...
>
> Best to re-pronoun this, Tim, and with a twist or two:
>
> because at that point her son was calling her for cash.
> because at that point her Squeeze was on the telly and the internet.
> because at that point her Squeeze told her to get a life.
> because at that point she believed she could not successfully do or redo
> her
> poems.
> because at that point she had not yet figured out that she had not only a
> son
> and a Squeeze, a telly and the internet; she had smashing good times
making
> poems.
>
> Judy claiming for her gender More Than Half the media time and space
>
> On 19 March 2010 10:20, Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > because at that point his mum was calling him for his tea.
> >
> > because at that point something better was on the telly.
> >
> > because at that point his girlfriend told him to get a life.
> >
> > because at that point he tried too consciously to redo what he had
> already
> > done.
> >
> > etc
> >
> > Tim A.
> >
> >
> > On 19 Mar 2010, at 13:46, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > Question # 3: If a poet can write one or two or more great works of
> poetry
> >> why cannot all of his or her works be great?
> >>
> >> G. E. Schwartz
> >>
> >
>
>
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You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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