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By some measures, very. By others...?
martingreene:The poet heard on my computer's audio sounded very good, and it helped me confirm that he is a smart guy who wrote a good piece, not guaranteed, as we have seen, to be well received. I just listened to Prof. Skinner too. (I keep forgetting that my new cable access finally allows me to listen to the poets quickly and, if necessary, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 15, 2007
Re: Paul Breslin
MaryAnn: I'm sure we both can agree that Dr. Paul Breslin knows more about evaluating poetry than all of us put together. And yet, the last thing he said here before he left is that people judge the Tuesday poem too quickly and that they need to spend more time trying to understand what the poet was trying to do before judging the poem. Mary ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 15, 2007
More aptly, it aims for the moon and hits the neighbor's dog
Hi MaryAnn, This discussion (here and elsewhere) is rapidly developing into something that requires more time and thought than I am able to give it. And that's too bad, because I'm interested in literally anything and everything that helps me understand better how the world works. But ''here goes nothing...'' My screwball quip in the title is ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 14, 2007