Re: Kafka and rilke and Perplexity State University

Ha :). Good rule.

Jim

Kim Johnson wrote:
> reply below.
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> --- James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
>
>>there were plenty of bad poets, even back then. I
>>guess the difference
>>now is exposure -- the best stuff from the past is
>>always easily
>>accessible, while the crap from the 16/17th
>>centuries is really only
>>read by scholars. Contemporary poetry, though, is
>>out there for
>>everyone, and probably more so than it ever has been
>>in the past.
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> the sheer amount of contemporary poetry is
> overwhelming. (i'm not sure if i should put poetry in
> quote marks, or not.)
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> personally, i feel we (the readers) would be a whole
> lot better off if there were to be a stricture on
> publishing poetry. no poems allowed in print until
> they have survived at least a year in an airless desk
> drawer.
>
> but you're free to read them to any unwitting soul.
>
> kim
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