[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[Robin Hamilton]

From: Bob Grumman

<<
While I'm writing you, let me thank you for inviting me to define "organic 
poetry," but I think "organic" has been subjected to too much abuse to be 
resuscitated.
>>

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Coleridge in this thread yet -- wasn't that 
where the "organic" business in art/lit started from?

[Which, inter alia defines much of my difference from Bob in the area of 
taxonomy -- lots of words tend to come accompanied by a history, and every 
definition should be time-stamped.]

<<
But I have defined around it somewhat as when I divided poetry into 
classiformular and idioformular, defining the first as poetry adhering to a 
known form, the second as poetry each specimen of which finds its own unique 
form.  The mechanical, in some respects, versus the organic, in some 
respects.
>>

Um ... yeah.  <g>

Robin