From: Natalie@yabbs
To: JasonLee@yabbs
Subject: re: Mariusz
Date: Sat Apr 30 11:14:16 1994
Hmmm....I don't like to compare between genres all that much...there's 
different criteria for  different genres...Heinlein made sci-fi 
respectable...and Ralph Ellison did what he did very well too...bot talk 
aboutthe human conditon, just in different ways...

Pure intention does not necessarily make good poetry, I agree that t s 
necessary to know enough to avoid a cliche, *but* you have to give a 
person credt for tryng...we all can't be Yeats or Shakespeare...  And 
while I'll be the first one in line to bitch and moan about the state of 
poetry today (i.e., I detest free verse, but it's about all I can write 
decently...I know, I'm a living contraciction), but a lot of it does have 
merits...now modern art on the other hand.....If anyone wants to hear my 
whole discourse on poetry, just let me know and I'll unleash it on you... 
*grin*

natalie