[New-Poetry] Goetsch's greed

Rsgwynn1 at cs.com Rsgwynn1 at cs.com
Tue Jul 17 20:24:29 EDT 2007


In a message dated 7/17/2007 7:16:08 PM Central Standard Time, 
bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net writes: 
> Sounds like Goetsch never experienced the triumph of solving a puzzle.  Not 
> 
> that any good poem should only give an engagent a chance at that, and not 
> that every good poem needs to, but calling for the elimination of poems that 
> 
> do strikes me like calling for the elimination metaphor.
> 
> But, yes, yawn.
> 
> --Bob
> 
Most puzzles have solutions, which reward the solver.  Some poems don't, 
which is the problem here.  There's no joy in being endlessly frustrated.   
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