Coteries Categories Individuals

          
                                    
                                             
See prior Stephen Burt posts: kh00027 and kh00028.     
As strongly as I am against literary packaging,   
which arises from the human need to label things,
I cannot figure out why I consistently allow the    
ruminations of others to draw me into that habit.
Yes it is a memory aid, and yes in the sciences it
is essential, but it tends to limit the scope of 
what a given maker actually makes.  Scientifically,
I am in the category of humans who are less than   
five feet tall.  In the realm of poem-making are  
those who prefer to be members of a coterie and/or   
to be identified as being a maker whose works are  
examples of a specific categorizable nature.  I   
find nothing wrong with that.  But yesterday          
Mark Wallace led me to a post by none other than   
that erudite independent John Latta, a post I had   
already read or at least glanced through.  I read  
it, and realized that my willingness to let Burt  
or whomever have hir say without my trying to be   
confrontational lessens the worth of what I say.  
So this is how on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 
Latta wins.                                             
                                               
                                         
                                               
                                              
kh00029                                    
              

John Latta post for today

  
                                        
                                         
will be of interest to all who hold a view    
similar to mine.  What view?  I think that   
if you read his post you will figure that
out easily enough.  I'm having my usual    
evening breathing difficulties.  So there   
are circles and squiggles and interior    
rattlings, and semi-conscious rockings I/
find hard to stop even though I know that  
they exacerbate my breathing difficulties.       
                                                 
Well, don't just sit there,                  
hop on over to Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
                                          
                                         
Note: his archive information is at the     bottom of his page.                                       
                                              
                                        
                                         
                                           
                                       
kh00026