[New-Poetry] Poetic dialogue?

[TheOldMole]

I'd guess "bullshit" meaning tricks to simulate originality.


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> 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?
>
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