[New-Poetry] Poetic dialogue?

[James Cervantes]

On 12/31/06, Joseph Duemer <duemer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tad, I think what Don meant or what he was gesturing toward was the desire
> of the artist to retreat into anonymity while at the same time showing
> mastery. Think of the guild apprentice in the middle ages producing his
> "masterpiece" -- a technical term, that -- in order to become a journeyman.
> How much "originality" would that masterpiece have shown? Of course this is
> not the middle ages & aesthetic expectations, & conventions change. I don't
> think Don -- the only Pulitzer Prize winner I am entitled to refer to by
> first name -- aspired to a period style because he wanted to write the
> workshop poem, so called. I think he wished for a period style because he
> didn't believe in bullshit.

"Bullshit" meaning tricks, gimmicks, a cooked up "style"?  Aside from
that, don't we all write in this period's styles?

-- Jim
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