[New-Poetry] and yet it remains undefined...

[Bob Grumman]

> -- Cendrars, Apollinaire and Max Jacob -- incorporate
> any imaginable genre or form considered *at the time*
> as "not poetry": commercial publicity, cheap novels,
> visual images, prose (even entirely internally
> coherent prose), whatever you can think of.
I still don't consider any of these things poetry, by the way--unless 
incorporated into a poem.  (And I see that Alex was not saying they were.)

My definition, it seems to me, will avoid breaking down if some new (in 
kind) matter starts being added to what are now known as poems because 
it merely requires that a poem be, ultimately, a text of some sort, 
whether anything non-textual is added to it or not.  I define a poem as 
a particular kind of text (a literary text with one of more flow-breaks 
per line), with or without atextual additions (so long as they don't 
make the text seem the thing added rather than the thing added to, to a 
consensus of informed observers).

--Bob G.