[New-Poetry] MFA

[jfq at myuw.net]

okay no fighting. thanks for asking nicely. :)

incidentally I really like your  analogy. i love idioms from other languages. particularly ones that have close translations in English. Do you know the expression "Cherry on top?" I think it means something similar, if I understand the Italian expression correctly.

On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Anny Ballardini wrote:

> I didn't want to start any fights, sorry, indeed. Let's just leave it there. Please.
> And I was not specifically referring to your mail, either. (I had problems with the net when people were talking about this topic and I kept on receiving mails...)
>
> My mail was meant to be a broad consideration. We are all here because we like reading. Thus studying should be the strawberry on whipped cream, as they say in Italy. Especially if we are speaking of an MFA in poetry...
> Maybe I should have said something like this.
>
>
> From: <jfq at myuw.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 6:45 PM
>
>
>> I don't think I HAVE made it clear enough. Which is why I responded to Anny's comment, because she seemed to have misunderstood me. Since she's a smart person, I take that to be a failing on my part to have explained clearly that it wasn't studying poetry that I was being critical of, but rather a certain way of studying poetry.
>>
>> What's curious to me though, is why, if you've been so bothered by my recent posts to the list, you're so anxious to kick off the flame war again by flaming me like this?
>>
>> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Chris Lott wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/2/06, jfq at myuw.net <jfq at myuw.net> wrote:
>>> [bla bla .. MFA ... yada yada ... mfa-ness ... talk talk ... my superiority..]
>>>> Is all I'm saying.
>>>
>>> Great... could you perhaps stop saying it now? For a little while even?
>>>
>>> You've made your position very clear. If there was anyone here who was
>>> going to be convinced by your arguments, I'm sure they have been.
>>> Probably were after the 30th rep. You should keep those reps between
>>> 8-12 to build poetic mass...
>>>
>>> c
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