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

[Chris Lott]

Bob: What you call "base emotion," which I agree stems from a world of
experience and circumstances, is precisely what I was talking about.
It's inexplicable in any productive sense of the term. At some point,
many discussions of poetry come to this point of peaches or pears.
When *you* say this, it's just logical. When *I* say this, I'm anti-
and/or non- intellectual. It seems a pretty clear example of precisely
the point I was trying to make, which is that where this kind of
position is "allowed" is too often the point which best serves one's
agenda.

You've made yourself abundantly clear, Bob. I'm sure you meant being
anti- and/or non-intellectual in the nicest way possible. It logically
follows that my being non-intellectual and/or anti-intellectual makes
it very difficult to learn anything from you.

c