[New-Poetry] Camlle Paglia explains how she saved poetry

[Bob Grumman]

Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Maybe you mean that nothing INTERESTING can be proven, James. Of course,
> value judgments can't be proven,
Certainly they can, if you start with some unproven axiom as you must to 
prove anything whatever.  For instance, a poem consisting of a blank 
page is indisputably inferior in aesthetic value to a poem consisting of 
a bunch of words (except maybe the first time some Clever Poet called a 
blank page a poem).  But you're an incurable relativist, Hal, and I'm an 
Effectual Absolutist, by which I mean I believe nothing is absolutely 
certain but a lot of things are effectually absolutely certain.

--Bob G.