Great Poems

Reb raises an issue (or non-issue) over at her Jackal about great poems and poets.

My say: Nothing is deeply true and universal. Everything is deeply true and universal.

I'd recommend that Reb's friend read John Dewey's "Art as Experience."

Bemoaning the current state of poetry seems a little pointless to me. On one hand, it's like bemoaning the current state of dragonfly sexual habits research.

On the other, though, it's true that poetry is something that matters to many of us. So it's an important discussion insofar as it gets people talking about what they love.

I think Gudding is the next Shakespeare, for what it's worth. But I don't believe in Shakespeare. I mean that in the same sense that John Lennon doesn't believe in most things in the song "God."

I just believe in me. Yoko and me.