[New-Poetry] Nat'l Poetry Slag Week

Anny Ballardini anny.ballardini at tin.it
Sun Apr 29 12:41:56 EDT 2007


all right! Does he maybe think that fiction is a more refined ... "science"?

  From: JforJames at aol.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 5:57 PM


  Poet. Pompous synonym for fool, dreamer.
  Poetry. Entirely useless; old hat.

  --Gustave Flaubert, The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (Jacques Barzun, trans.,
  New Directions 1954)

  Note: philosophy didn’t get off any better…
  Philosophy. Always snicker at it.


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