[New-Poetry] Sad Thought Of The Day

[Anny Ballardini]

like a drop in a sink
like a bit in a network
like green when it's green
or white when it's white

From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 7:53 PM


> Like the tree falling in the forest....
>
> Linda Sue Grimes wrote:
>> "as I poet I don't exist"
>>  What does that mean?
>>  respectfully,
>> lsg
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     *From:* JforJames at aol.com <mailto:JforJames at aol.com>
>>     *To:* new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu <mailto:new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
>>     *Sent:* Friday, May 18, 2007 12:20 PM
>>     *Subject:* [New-Poetry] Sad Thought Of The Day
>>
>>     http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/05/the_academy.html
>>      Kenneth Goldsmith--
>>     "Without the academy, as I poet I don't exist. I have almost no
>>     readership (thinkership) outside the academy. This is not a choice
>>     of mine: it's is a condition that preceded my arrival onto the
>>     writing scene, fostered by numerous cultural conditions in the
>>     States -- primarily by the precedent set by the warm reception of
>>     Language Poetry by the academy in the 80s. As a result, since
>>     then, innovative or experimental writing lives only in the academy. "
>>      --
>>     It's the reader's fault--Finnegan
>>
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