[New-Poetry] Does Most Contemporary American Poetry Have To Be Chopped-Li...

[Jeff Newberry]

Well said, David.  Of course, I'm one of those anti-intellectual philistine
who thinks that art cannot be quantified, so what would I know?

Best,
Jeff Newberry

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

>  And I'll add what I always add when this chestnut gets roasted again. . .
> .
>
> There's a circularity to the argument ("this poem is just chopped-up
> prose") that is seldom acknowledged by the makers.  Typically it goes like
> this:  (a) All poetry must have X or Y.  Otherwise it's just chopped-up
> prose.   (b) THIS poem doesn't have X or Y.  (c) herefore it isn't a poem,
> it's just chopped-up prose.
>
> But what about if you don't buy the original premise, which remains
> assumed?  Or what if things are a leeeeetle bit more complicated than
> defining poetry as X or Y (meter, heightened diction, or whatever).
>
>
> On 2/26/09 8:47 AM, "AlMaginnes at aol.com" <AlMaginnes at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Could you give some examples of what you consider "chopped line prose"
> instead of simply saying "most contemporary American poetry"? It's kind of
> hard to have a discussion about something like this without dealing with
> specifics .
>
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