[New-Poetry] Re: Re: a word to my friend Crisman (Barry Spacks)

[Crisman Cooley]

Yes, yes, Barry.  And not only 'is he the Emperor?' but 'doesn't my  
thinking make him so?'
In this same way whether I consider myself a poet is irrelevant; it  
only matters whether you do.
The self-proclaimed Emperors are the nakedest kind.

> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 10:10:08 -0700
> From: Barry Spacks <barry.spacks at verizon.net>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Re: a word to my friend Crisman
>
>
> On May 19, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Crisman Cooley wrote:
>
>> It is telling in the conceptual nature of his work
>> that I haven't actually sought out the text of _Fidget_.  Simply
>> accepted the necessity of the gesture and felt relief that I didn't
>> have to make it.
>
> Not "Is the Emperor clothed?" but
> is he the Emperor?
>
> lost in the soup,
>
> Barry
>
>