[New-Poetry] Another analogy to explain the aesthetic divide

Jason Quackenbush jfq at myuw.net
Sun Sep 3 20:17:25 EDT 2006


it was my innovation. gabe gudding was posting about social scripts on the poetics listserv, and so i thought i'd try my own hand at taxonomizing. The 
Outsiders seemed like teh obvious choice, although I honestly think that the breakfast club allows for a more sophisticated analysis.
JforJames at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/3/2006 6:33:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net writes:
> 
>     Yeeks, a taxonomy has snuck into new-poetry without my awareness. 
>     Waz goin' on?  Can you explain your terms, James--I can't find any
>     post where you did, and I have trouble figuring out what you might
>     mean by them. 
> 
>     --Bob G.

> Bob, sorry not to explain fully...that's not mine. I just snipped that 
> bit off of the Poetics List because I found it an amusing way of looking 
> at the world of contemporary poetry...
> a novel take on 'schools of poetry'.
>  
> Finnegan


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