[New-Poetry] subject matters

[James Cervantes]

Same goes for e-mails, huh.

- Jim

On 9/6/07, Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> The notion that poems must have subjects is equally silly.
>
> Hal
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> "What do I know of man's destiny? I could
>  tell you more about radishes."
>               --Samuel Beckett
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> Halvard Johnson
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> halvard at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
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> On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:52 AM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:
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> In a message dated 9/6/2007 8:39:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jeff.newberry at gmail.com writes:
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>
> I suppose I just bristle at the dismissive attitude some (not all) critics &
> poets have toward the subject matter of a poem.
>
>
> re that point...I post this to my blog last month:
>
> One of T.S. Eliot's sillier notions was that the poem's content was little
> more than a bit of meat that a burglar carries with him to distract the
> house dog while he steals away with the valuables. My mind-keep is guarded
> by a beast that could tear the three heads off Cerberus. So that
> poet-burglar better be dragging the carcass of a water buffalo.
>
> Finnegan
> http://ursprache.blogspot.com/
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