[New-Poetry] Excellence

[Chris Lott]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
> Well, all I can say, Michael, is that I think one can use a check-list to
> come close to deciding whether most poems are excellent

Marcus Bales is probably falling in love with you at this very moment.
At one point, at least, his mission was to rip all subjectivity from
aesthetic appreciation.

> I can't see how any poem can give
> anyone lasting pleasure;

Proof that you and I, at least, are different species. But then we knew that...

c