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Re: MaryAnn and Ted
by Ted Burke

denny, everyday we talk about poetry and what sorts of qualities make it worth bother with at all, and a large part of that discussion, going on for several years now, means parsing poems and debating whether they're any good. The issue for me isn't whether you can make a poem around numbers, but whether you're poem is any good. As I've explained, I don't think it is.

Lighten up a bit.

Fearlessly backsliding, denny? You asked for critical comments, and even welcomed them them in your subject line. Now you're defensive when you get precisely what it is you asked for. That's a classic case of bad faith.

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