[New-Poetry] mince & dice

[Barry Spacks]

On Dec 18, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Bob G. wrote:

>  I came to believe that no term would offend no one.

    At least, in this long battle, we've lost the self-cosseting  
"burstnorm,"
   I thank you for that. And for seeing, if perhaps only briefly, that
  "WilchBobbia" registers  the divide and conquor tactics  of the  
relentless
  Polemicist as a grim, self-defeating  joke (grim because destructive
  of the true scope and continuity of the art since Gilgamesh,
  an art that tends -- after a bit of inertia -- to welcome and be
energized by experimental initiative).
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