[New-Poetry] from the Writer's Almanac

[Judy Prince]

Certainly the measure of one's character is in one's response to one's
published obit, nah?  Hence, my curi-oh-see-tay about William Baer's
possible response.
Thanks, Ole Mole, we know you are not worthless, well for the most part at
least, and we like you especially when you say funny things.

Best,

Judy who asks you to stay tuned for the next post of mine.....

2009/5/3 TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>

> Looks like I'm worthless again there. I don't know this story at all. But
> it sounds interesting.
>
> Paul Krassner of The Realist once published an obituary for Lenny Bruce
> when Lenny was still alive. Then a couple of years later, when Paul wrote a
> piece for one of the 70s rock magazines -- Cheetah, I think -- they ran a
> little black-edged sidebar lamenting Paul's untimely death just before the
> article was published. Paul was not amused.
>
> Judy Prince wrote:
>
>> Dear Worthless Guy,
>>
>> Can you give me [thank you; me is Judy] details about this fascinating
>> leading statement in Wiki re William Baer?
>>
>> "He also received brief fame when his obituary was prematurely published
>> by the New York Times <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times> due
>> to a hoax by his students.
>>
>> 2009/5/3 TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org <mailto:Opus40-01 at opus40.org>>
>>
>>    Speaking as the worthless guy, it makes no difference if the lines
>>    don't get in the way of your appreciation of the poem, some
>>    difference if they do.
>>
>>    I wonder, though -- are there any elements of craft that are worth
>>    discussing, or is scansion the only worthless one?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    Chris Lott wrote:
>>
>>        On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Judy Prince
>>        <jbalizsprince at googlemail.com
>>        <mailto:jbalizsprince at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>            Hi, Chris,
>>            I keep wondering why it's such a well hidden secret that
>>            scansion depends
>>            upon the scanner for the scanner's ear and eye and brain's
>>            response
>>            to/interpretation of the poet's words?
>>
>>
>>        It's not a secret. But it means that when person A posts a
>>        poem and
>>        person B says "it doesn't scan" then person B's response is rather
>>        meaningless, no?
>>
>>
>>            Fiercesome battles have ensued about scansion and its supposed
>>            only-one-way-of-reading authority.  Yes, of course I'm
>>            OTTing about it here,
>>            and do welcome hearing others' views.  It's just that so
>>            few folk recognise
>>            scansion's role as a wonderfully useful
>>            *variously-applied* medium.
>>
>>
>>        I'm still looking for the wonderfully useful part, I guess. Maybe
>>        lines 2 and 6 of Baer's poems scan to one or maybe they don't.
>>        What
>>        difference does it make?
>>
>>        c
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