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One of the greatest noirs, joan is phenomenal especially in the final segment.

“Poems should echo and reecho against each other. They should create resonances. They cannot live alone any more than we can.” —Spicer

Notation.

“What exactly is poetry and what makes a good poem?”

unlike the other silly question that was asked hereabouts recently (“what is the greatest lyric poem in English?”) i don’t think this one is worth answering. formerly, there was an answer for every age & every culture but now there are 500 & the prevailing sense is that each poet decides for himself which criteria to use. the odd thing is, though, that when poets do argue they seem to think they are taking one of two (or, occasionally, three) possible positions. after an hour, if they are smart & somewhat lucky, they will then discover that they don’t even have definitions in common for the words they’ve been using to describe their positions… such is the state of intellectual discourse at the end of the 20c.

1-31-2002 on Eratosphere forum

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