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Re: "The Offense of Poetry"
In another post, islandtime wrote: Hazard Adams (love the name, but it sounds more like he should be wrestling grizzly bears than writing books) is a Univ. of Wash. professor whose new book is titled, ''The Offense of Poetry.'' From the UW bookstore site, here's a partial description of the book: There is something offensive and scandalous ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 7, 2008
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