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

[Chris Lott]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Mark Weiss<junction at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have a feeling we're talking past each other here. I'm not proposing that
> "the mere fact that something isn't accepted is no
> guarantee it will continue to have value."

If you read what I wrote, I wasn't claiming that you did. I was
agreeing with you, while pointing out the fact that knowing whether
the difficulty one is facing now points to importance or ultimate
obscurity can be difficult-- if not impossible-- to know.

It appears to me that people get fooled all the time. In love and poetry.

In the final reckoning, for me, knowing "what's going on" is
interesting and even important, but ultimately less so than whether
the poem moves me--whether I can love it-- or not. But then, what do I
know-- I'm not a fancy big-city reader like Bob.

c