[New-Poetry] Bob Grumman, do you have . . .

[Judy Prince]

Thanks, Bob.  I sent it off to WOMPOlist with the disclaimer that anything
in it containing the word "math" should be struck from readers' brains.  But
they prolly thought I was joking.
It's a nice WEPD, Bob; concise and I wouldnae add anything to it.  We should
use it again so that we NPers can get into huge fights and decide to go out
for ale or Diet Coke.  I wonder where Barry Spaks is or if I'm spelling his
name right.

Very late here and due to be in the 90s tomorrow yargh!

Judy

2009/6/1 Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>

>  Judy Prince wrote:
>
> a copy of your WEPD checklist?  Or, rather, each of the revisions plus the
> original?
>  I told WOMPOs that you had a WEPD checklist for evaluating poetry, and
> one of the WOMPOs asked if I had a copy but I cannot find it.
>
>  It was lovely fun and horrible agony while it lasted, that ole WEPD.
>
>  Best,
>
>  Judy
>
> Sorry I took so long to reply, Judy--got side-tracked.  Anyway, here is the
> final form.  I keep meaning to do an essay on it, but haven't gotten to it.
> Dunno how much I go along with it, but I still think it as valid as any like
> list I'm familiar with.  Note: "For a Consensus of Informed Opinion" can be
> substituted for what's in the second set of parentheses, and the first text
> in parentheses deleted.
>
> *A Poem Is Excellent (For an Engagent of It) Regardless of How Long
> Halfwits Have Praised or Dismissed It If (For That Engagent) It:
> *
> (1) results in an experience of something importantly beautiful;
>
> (2) is clear, but not easily clear, nor ever finally fully clear:
>
> (3) has a Unifying Principal, or some meaning or image or the like which
> pulls its elements reasonably close together;
>
> (4) contains few or no superfluous words or other matter;
>
> (5) boasts some constituent of substance that few or no other poems have
> such as uncommon diction, grammar, expressive modality (e.g., mathematics,
> visual
> art), and imagery;
>
> (6) avoids excessive use of predictable language, imagery, sentiment,
> ideation,
> technique and structural methodology.
>
> --Bob Grumman
>
>
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