[New-Poetry] MFA

[Anny Ballardini]

Yes, it was meant to be a cherry, I put a strawberry and sometimes I also 
add chocolate... :-)

From: <jfq at myuw.net>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 7:45 PM


>
> 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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