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Hi Candice, The gossamer flight term refers to an earlier discussion on Poetryetc about 'camps' and 'wars' in Australian poetry (sorry I can't recall date). This is a topic I am especially interested in because part of my critical work on Australia's 'new 90s' poetry (once 'emergent') is about creating different terms with which to discuss the new poetry and the new poetry communities. I feel passionately about NOT using terms such as 'poetry wars' and 'schools', and gossamer lines of flight is one way (not THE way) of thinking about the way 'new' poetry communities are being created and how they work (lines of flight is a Deleuzian borrowing and I think someone on that previous discussion employed the term gossamer). regards deb ----- Original Message ----- From: Candice Ward <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 5:31 PM Subject: Re: A Caution (P.S.) > Just wanted to add, in response to Jill's comments re the SMH article's > having gone "international," that I'm to blame for that, remember, not JK, > as I was the one who posted it to Poetryetc. Of course, that makes DEB the > real culprit (if anyone's to be jack-used for having let Sydney poetry news > out of Australia and onto the "world stage," as someone in the > PoetryEspresso thread termed it)--but maybe this exemplifies what she means > by those (to me, utterly mystifying) references to "gossamer flight." > > 'Night y'all, > > Candice >