[New-Poetry] looking for poems (and other writing) on "the idea"

[Bob Grumman]

I'm as interested in your subject, which seems to me to be epistemology, 
as I am in poetics, so have my theories that you will probably dislike 
as much as you do my poetics, Chris, but I thought I'd pipe in that I 
believe in innate concepts (which I call "urcepts") for circle, person, 
father, two and so forth, so wonder if in your reading you've come 
across any speculation as to the origins of a belief in ideas.  I 
particularly wonder what the first idea might have been.

Incidentally, thanks for simply mentioning your project--because it got 
me thinking about the ideas we have that are not innate, and how, 
according to my theory they are formed.  I think they're simply 
generalities.  An idea of pig is simply all one's memories of pigs in a 
big clot with all the differences between the pigs involved becoming 
effaced with time until all that's left is a kind of pig-universal.  My 
newest thought is that the brain tags such universals, but I can't 
figure out how it recognizes them as such before tagging them.  Which 
has nothing to do with your project, just me solipsissing away.

Whee, Bob