[New-Poetry] Poetics Question

[James Cervantes]

Well, he's not the Simon Cowell of poetry.  That honor goes to someone else.
- Jim

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:01 AM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:

> You're being disingenuous, Bob. There's no way that terms like "Wilshberia"
> or "Iowa plaintext" or any of the others can be interpreted as anything but
> derogation.
>
> By and large, here, there's a fair amount of acceptance for your rebuses.
>
>
>
> Bob Grumman wrote:
>
>> Chris Lott wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Most of the
>>>> people in visual poetry are as negative about my interest in things like
>>>> canonical sonnets as a, uh, few people at New-Poetry are about my
>>>> promotion
>>>> of vizpoetics.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder if it's your promotion of vizpo that arouses the frustration
>>> or the regular running-down of [insert the pejorative term of the day
>>> here] poetry?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Well, it's often the presumed "running down" of the poetry in Wilshberia.
>>  Many people, perhaps the majority of them, have trouble realizing that
>>  annoyance over the fact that the Pulitzer has again gone to a poet residing
>> in Wilshberia, for example, equals running down the poetry of Wilshberia, or
>> Merwin.  Not that I don't knock poetry perhaps too often--even poetry I like
>> when I get carried away.
>>
>>> Actually, I don't really wonder (at least for myself-- I enjoy your
>>> writing about vizpo) but it sounds better to put it that way.
>>>
>>> c
>>>
>> Ha, you're running down my writing about poetry other than vizpo, Chris!!!
>>
>> --Tender Robert
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> New-Poetry mailing list
>> New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
>> http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry
>>
>>
>
> --
> Tad Richards
> Read my NY Writing Careers Examiner column today!
> http://www.examiner.com/x-2862-NY-Writing-Careers-Examiner
>
> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>
> _______________________________________________
> New-Poetry mailing list
> New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/pipermail/new-poetry/attachments/20090422/e5fc25ce/attachment.html