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Re: Good Grief MaryAnn
Hi MaryAnn, To be fair, and as I tried to make clear at the outset, it's not the poem I disrespect, nor the poet -- neither as poem qua poem nor as poet qua poet. The poem is worthy enough and the poet good at the craft (at least IMO-FWIW). It would be foolish for me to try to engage such a poem at the level that someone like Paul Breslin does. ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009
Re: evaluating poems
MaryAnn:islandtime, I, too, abhor the phrase Tuesday tripe. What particularly bothers me are posts that fail to make a distinction between not liking something (perhaps because of a different belief system from that expressed in the poem or because of a preference for a different style of writing) and calling something tripe. There's nothing ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 15, 2007