[New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[Jeff Newberry]

You don't live in doubt and uncertainty?  Do tell.  Do tell.

As far as I (a mere mortal) am concerned, doubt and uncertainty are the only
certainties.

Jeff Newberry

On 7/1/07, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
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> " . . . one of poetry's chief aims is to illumine the walls of mystery,
> the inscrutable, the unsayable.  I think poetry ought to be taught not as an
> engine of meaning but as an opportunity to learn to live in doubt and
> uncertainty, as a means of claiming indeterminacy.  Our species is deeply
> defined by its great surges of reason, but I think it high time we return to
> elemental awe and wonder."
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> --Major Jackson, "Does Poetry Have a Social Function," Poetry, January
> 2007
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> Jeff Newberry
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> As if anyone could live in doubt and uncertainty.  Not that utter
> certainty, if possible, wouldn't be worse.
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> --Bob Grumman
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"Memory believes before knowing remembers.  Believes longer than recollects,
longer than knowing even wonders."
—William Faulkner, Light in August


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