[New-Poetry] Poetics (was Poetic Justice)

[Halvard Johnson]

The future of one-word poems looks bright to me,
compared, say, to the future of poems consisting
of exactly 367 words. There's not much of a past
there either.

Hal

McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.
They're a bridge to nowhere.

Halvard Johnson
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On Nov 3, 2008, at 5:23 AM, Bob Grumman wrote:

> I would think anything as "a governing aesthetic" meaning aesthetic  
> exclusively followed, would "rapidly exhaust itself."  But "lighght"  
> verse has been with us for forty years or more, and is still being  
> practiced.  I myself believe one-word poems have about had it, but  
> that minimalism will always be as valuable for poets as anything  
> else, but only as part of poetry in general.  That is, used in  
> larger works.
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