[BULK] Re: [New-Poetry] kindly thought about bad books

[Skip Fox]

I’d had a few books I’ve had to trash (water damage, etc.) and a few I’ve
gotten rid of because I dislike, but I generally subscribe to the sentiment,
for that is what it is. The simple feeling that every book is a verbal
gesture. They are generally less harmful than many physical gestures, though
there are, arguably some which are more. Words are how we make ourselves
most known, for the writer (I’m not referring to biographical material in
the work), and that gesture is respected by other writers. Anyway, that’s
how I took it.

 

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Elaine Brown
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Don’t get me wrong with this question.  I’m a total bookophile.  

But why should we regard books as sacred?  I mean, a thing just *being* a
book is enough to mean the thing is sacred?  This seems not obviously right
to me (which does not mean it is wrong).  Anyone have a well-argued reason?



On 3/7/07 9:06 AM, "JforJames at aol.com" <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:

As bab blurbs have ebbed away, here's a thought to end that thread...

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
--(narrator Oskar Matzerath) Günther Grass. 1959. “Rasputin and the
Alphabet.” The Tin Drum, bk. 1. tr. R. Manheim. 1961.




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