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*** Notes Report on visits to individual entries. Realization that people might visit an entry without first going to Bloghome. Importance of step to considering dividend shed as mobile. Idea to use it forcing it way into or out of some enclosure like Bennett's frame. Visit to a Poetry Reading. On my growing boredom with powoermds, need to use them in larger poems.

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**** 5/23/04 6:27 AM, Bob Grumman at [email protected] wrote: > Forgive yet another of my acts of literary terrorism (I really like the > thought of that), but I want to say that I think the above an excellent Iowa > Plainlay. Yes, it's different from the majority of such poems in that it is > more explicitly and thoroughly meditative. If I ever really study > knownstream poetry, I'll probably work out subcategories of the Iowa > Plainlay.

OK, I think I got it now. The poem is different from the majority of poems that it resembles, yet definitely belongs to a "school" of such Iowa poems which you haven't really studied, but you'll probably fill in the details later on.

This asshole thinks a poem has to be exactly like another poem in order to qualify for the same category the first poem is in. He also specializes in mocking my way of presenting myself; he rarely offers arguments of substance against any of my taxonomical efforts. He's never controversial, always in the middle road. Always reasonable. In short, a trivial cautious mediocrity. A self-satisfied stasguard oblivious of the continents of poetry offshore from his own continent; yes, he can make out one or two of them, but thinks they're islands a few miles away. This is the halfwit who thought "teh" a good parody of "lighght." According to his reasoning, a person can't tell cats from dogs if he admits he can't tell Persian cats from Angola cats. Why people make fun of your taxonomic project is just puzzling, Bob.

By the way, I think on the basis of the above paragraph you could really serve on the faculty of the New York School. If you've not heard of them, they're sort of the original low-residency MFA program. You could look 'em up. . . .

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