[New-Poetry] From my archives

[Anny Ballardini]

9. The idealistic response: "Bad will become Good"
10. The Stoic response: "Bad is better than Good, since bad defines it, shapes it, without bad no good is to be found"
11. The Romantic response: "Poetry permeates Man's life, how can it be bad?"
12. The existentialist response: "Poetry does not exist, whether the assumption of its existence is given, it can only survive in its own desert".
13. Decartes thus spoke: "The good going up, the bad intersecting and descending, two separate tunnels, well defined and visible to man's eyes"
14. The musician scaling through: "B♭♭          , A♯,    C F, D
15. The artist (see some colored splotches)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Halvard Johnson 
  To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu 
  Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 4:57 AM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] From my archives


  Responses to the Bad-poetry-written-when-I-thought-it-was-good thread:


  1. The terminological response: "Please define your terms."
  2. The hypothetical response: "If good poetry can become bad poetry,
      how can we be sure that it really *is* bad poetry; and, if good poetry
      can become bad poetry, is it not possible that bad poetry may become
      good poetry?"
  3. The categorical response: "Where is the line between good poetry
      and bad?"
  4. The cryptic response: "Good bad poetry is not all that far from bad good
      poetry *if* you know where to look."
  5. The perfunctory response: "The last poem I wrote is my worst one; the
      best one is the one I'm just now beginning to write."
  6. The scatological response: "You can put this thread where the sun don't
      shine."
  7. The Clintonesque response: "Depends what you mean by 'it.'"
  8. The "presidential" response: "Writers of bad poetry are evil-doers, and
      we're going to hunt them down and smoke them out of their caves, unless,
      of course, they is [sic] very good at slithering away."


  Hal


  "A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation
   suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals
   how dearly we must pay for the invention of
   speech."
  --E. M. Cioran


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