Hey Kevin,
Well, the thing about them is, they've written so many poems that it's almost impossible to conclusively prove that none of them are good.
I think there are actually quite a number of good poems by Creeley, but I ain't gonna post them here: doing that is just asking for some wandering samurai to come along and cut them to ribbons and, well, I like them and don't want them cut to ribbons.
Oh. Right. This thread is about Whitman. Well, the nice thing about Whitman is that it's very easy to conclusively prove that he did write a good poem, and that's much easier.
I've never thought about the name-signing thing. It always made sense on other boards where I used a screen-name instead of my real name. I guess it's pretty obvious who's really writing what here. But old habits die hard. And anyway, people might start to call me Daniel, which is fine, but only my parents and coworkers call me that, and I don't think y'all are in either of those categories.
So, pretentious or not, I remain
-Dan
[This message has been edited by Daniel Pereira (edited July 11, 2005).]
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