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

[Judy Prince]

and I had thought it a hog call.
Judy

2009/2/1 Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com>

> I love chopped sui generis.
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> Hal
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> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:
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>> James Cervantes wrote:
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>>> 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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