Re: bad poetry?

Seymour was searching for some ultimate spiritual understanding (the "nirvana," but not really that exactly), which by its very nature requires discriminating between ideas that advance him towards this goal, and ideas that don't.

So if we're reading poetry as part of a similar spiritual quest in our own lives, nondiscrimination is impossible. The crap about the moon gazing has to go.

And, more optimistically, a standard for "good poetry," and our own ability to create it, need not be abandoned.

luke

-------Original Message-------
From: Michael J ANELLO <Michael.J.Anello@state.or.us>
Sent: 07/03/03 03:23 PM
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: Re: bad poetry?

>
> so, it's only poetry if it's good or bad? and, if one can't discriminate
between good and bad poetry, like the guy who finds superlative horses, then
one should give up poetry? thoughts?

>>> haikux2@yahoo.com 07/03/03 12:09PM >>>
seymour was going on about championing
indiscrimination till doomsday and that that was
following the tao purely. but if one were to really
do this, he wouldn't be able to then discriminate
between good poetry and bad poetry. that he'd be
forced to give up poetry altogether; i.e., 'go beyond
poetry' into a higher spiritual realm.

i guess.

?

kim

--- James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> Yeah...I wonder what he means by "going beyond
> poetry"? I think at that
> point you're not interested in speaking to anyone --
> probably reflected
> by his decision not to publish.
>
> Jim
>
> Thanks for liking the little poem...
>
> Kim Johnson wrote:
> > remember poor seymour (in his diary) regarding the
> > dilemma of discrimination between good and bad
> poetry
> > and going beyond poetry altogether.
> >
> > and re publishing poetry, recall seymour's
> hesitancy
> > to publish his earlier work because he thought it
> > sounded too lotusey, too ungrateful, and shut out
> his
> > old librarians.
> >
> > kim
>
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