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Originally Posted by Bill
Now, before we actually get to the point, we should give these people their due. They are actually willing to make an aesthetic statement, to take a position. If we were to ask each other "what are your poetics?" how many of us would have a ready answer? Think about it. Take just a minute now, and describe your aesthetics. What do you write, why do you write it, what does it do, what's the goal? I dare you (not you in particular, Rose, everybody.) Even just fifty words. Less than this paragraph. Heck, use a hundred, if you need them.
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Why is the ability to sum up one's aesthetic in 50 words or less a good thing?
Okay, I just answered my own question: Marketing. If marketability is the ultimate goal, than yes, you have a point.
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Originally Posted by Nemo
If KG thinks I am an asshole and doesn't not extend the same benefit of the doubt to me that I do to him, Rose, that is of no importance to me. That too is sand for the box.
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Yes, that's true for you, but it's not realistic to expect most poets to see it that way. Some of them are trying to make careers, and competing for scarce resources. Some want their poetry to be read after they die, and getting published in Norton anthologies and the New Yorker and all that is an important part of the plan. It's a fight for survival. Only people like you, who have no ego, and people like me, who have no hope, are free to forget about all that.