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

[Mark Weiss]

You seemed perplexed about how, and why, to read certain kinds of 
poems. I was trying to be helpful.

Mark

At 01:03 PM 7/4/2009, you wrote:
>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
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