[New-Poetry] Galactic antiPoetry halfMonth

[Anny Ballardini]

[Logic-ally. He wanted it all for himself and for the few chosen bureaucrats
- like him - at the time, as we well know.]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com>wrote:

> Then must we not infer that all these poetical individuals, beginning with
> Homer, are only imitators; they copy images of virtue and the like, but
> the truth they never reach? The poet is like a painter who, as we have already
> observed, will make a likeness of a cobbler though he understands nothing
> of cobbling; and his picture is good enough for those who know no more
> than he does, and judge only by colours and figures.
>  --Plato's Republic
>
>
> Jeff Newberry
>
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> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> "I too dislike it . . ."
>>   --M. Moore
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> "My experience is what I agree to attend to."
>>           --William James
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
>> ================
>> halvard at gmail.com
>> http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home
>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
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>>   On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:04 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   With fond memories of April as Nat'l Poetry Month now fleeting, we
>>> have instituted "Galactic antiPoetry halfMonth."
>>>
>>> For the next two weeks I invite you to post slights, slaps, full body
>>> slams against the art we so love.
>>>
>>> For Day #1:
>>>
>>> “As to poetry, you know,” said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his
>>> great hands, “I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to
>>> that–”
>>> “Oh, it needn’t come to that!” Alice hastily said…
>>>
>>> Lewis Carroll
>>> from: Alice Through the Looking Glass
>>>
>>>
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> --
> You cannot tell people what to do, you can only tell them parables; and
> that is what art really is, particular stories of particular people and
> experience, from which each according to his own immediate and peculiar
> needs may draw his own conclusion. --W.H. Auden
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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