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> production and distribution more than suspicion Sounds challenging, with the internet. Luke On 1 July 2018 at 22:30, Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I’ve just written a piece much too long about all this but the product > will not be available for some time yet. I don’t know who wrote the > paragraph below but I find the whole numerical approach dodgy. The problem > created is of production and distribution more than suspicion of low grade > output. > P. > > On 1 Jul 2018, at 9:15 pm, Luke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Very few writing students will become writers, but they will become > better readers. This is not mere platitude. > > Just reading this > > >> But in the US > <https://www.boundary2.org/2017/09/pierre-joris-a-nomad-poetics-revisited-poetry-and-translation-in-a-global-age/> > we now create something like 3 to 6000 professional diploma’ed “poets” a > year who are turning out hundreds of thousand “poems” day in day out — > there are now at rough glance something close to half a million published > poets in the US. Now, I prefer that to be the case rather than those kids > having wandered off & joined the military or the evangelical troops. At the > risk of sounding elitist, I want to suggest however that most of this work > does not have what my third grandfather of the day, grand-pa Ezra called > the “arete,” which he translated as “virtue”, though for the Greeks the > word actually probably meant something closer to “being the best you can > be”, or “reaching your highest human potential”, & which I like to > mistranslate further as “arête,” as in a French fish, though not as a > French stop sign, or, better even, as the arresting quality of something > with spine. > > Do they all "become better readers"? > > Luke > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BRITISH-IRISH-POETS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BRITISH-IRISH-POETS&A=1