Re: [New-Poetry] An Era of DÃ(c)tente for Creative- Wri ting Programs

[Chris Lott]

You're right Bob. Recognizing that taxonomies have inherent
limitations in terms of explanatory and predictive power and agreeing
that subjective appraisals can be impossible to explain must mean I'm
an anti-intellectual. I guess I'm just not intellectual enough to
understand your reasoning.

For someone as intellectual as yourself, Bob, I guess it's no problem
to make vast leaps like "limitations" mean "worthless" and "some
things being inexplicable" means "everything is."

If believing that there are times that feeling the power or beauty of
something is enough and that some of those experiences can't be
productively explained to another and, most importantly, that it's OK
for that to be the case, makes me anti-intellectual in your world,
then so be it... it's an awfully tiny world in there.

c