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From: Karen Cruze <kcruze>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:07:06 -0500
Emma - please understand I'm not, nor do I think anyone else is, condemning your preferences for a type of poetry. But saying you identify with the poem's situation but don't like the form does not make the poem not-poetry. I don't personally like steel abstract sculptures, though I understand their creators motives. This does not make the sculpture non-sculpture. And to take it back to the wider discussion where does this leave us in regards to so many of the prose poem books being published for YAs these day? What do people think of this trend? And what are these books? Poetry, novels, or a hybrid? My own feeling is that categories should be as broad as possible. -- Karen Cruze
Received on Mon 18 Apr 2005 11:07:06 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:07:06 -0500
Emma - please understand I'm not, nor do I think anyone else is, condemning your preferences for a type of poetry. But saying you identify with the poem's situation but don't like the form does not make the poem not-poetry. I don't personally like steel abstract sculptures, though I understand their creators motives. This does not make the sculpture non-sculpture. And to take it back to the wider discussion where does this leave us in regards to so many of the prose poem books being published for YAs these day? What do people think of this trend? And what are these books? Poetry, novels, or a hybrid? My own feeling is that categories should be as broad as possible. -- Karen Cruze
Received on Mon 18 Apr 2005 11:07:06 AM CDT
