Re: [New-Poetry] An Era of Détente for Creative-Wri ting Programs

[Chris Lott]

As has already been mentioned, these poets weren't all teacher free.

Further, I fail to see how Hugo's position that you can't teach
someone to write good poems but you can help them avoid and get past
writing crappy ones stands in the way of "paradigm shifts." At least
it certainly seems more in line with what you appear to desire than
trying TO teach someone to write good poems.

And, really, if those who we assume capable of making that kind of
paradigm shifting leap are squelched so easily then perhaps they
weren't really capable of doing so in the first place.

c

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Mark Weiss<junction at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I'm sorry this bugs you. Let's try it another way. You don't get a Rimbaud,
> or a Ginsberg, or an Olson, or a Dickinson. Add your own.
>
> At 10:12 PM 7/2/2009, you wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Mark Weiss<junction at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Again, you don't get paradigm shifts by teaching people how not to
>> > write.
>> > There's something at stake here beyond the cultivation of a polite
>> > accomplishment.
>>
>> "Paradigm shifts?" Sweet Jesus deliver me...
>>
>> c
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