[New-Poetry] Books a poet should own...

[Bob Grumman]

> Wittgenstein once wrote that "Philosophy ought only to be written as a 
> form of poetry." Marjorie Perloff asserted the converse in Wittgenstein's 
> ladder, that really, poetry ought only to be written as a form of 
> philosophy. I don't know whether I agree with her or not, but even if she 
> is right, and a poem ought to be philosophical as much as a philosophical 
> statement must be poetic, then this poem of Zwicky's quoted below is 
> failing to be either poetry or philosophy.

Hmmm, I thought it was both--which is why I called it bs.

--bad Bob (now with an ally, it would seem!)