16 March 2005: The discussion I got into yesterday New-Poetry went on. Toward the end, I was asked if I have any indices for predicting greatness? My answer is hardly worth passing on here, but I just mowed my lawn (for the first time since the hurricane), and am too beat to come up with anything else for this entry, so here is what I said: "Sure. But it'd take me several books to do so. It'd have to do with archetypal depth, metaphorical freshness and size, number of devices well-used, number of senses engaged. Size of world.
Complexity of view. Clarity times complexity (so 100% clarity times 1%
coverage of existence would score lower than 60% clarity times 2% coverage
of existence. Etc." That was it.
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