[New-Poetry] Excellence in Poetry: a New Check-List

[Halvard Johnson]

I love chopped sui generis.

Hal

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> James Cervantes wrote:
>
>> How little poetry we would have if each and every poem were sui generis.
>>
>> - Jim
>>
> You seem to be taking "sui generis" too literally, Jim.  It doesn't mean in
> some way unlike every other poem, at least not to me; it means differing
> from all other poems in some fairly extreme way.  My check list doesn't have
> that as a requirement, only that an excellent poem be special in some way.
>  Dickinson's poems, for instance, each have a diction all its own, and like
> but not the same as the diction in her other poems, and unlike the diction
> in just about any other poet's poems, but not enough to make her poem sui
> generis, I don't think.  Unless every good poet's oeuvre is sui generis.
>
>
> --Bob
>
>
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