http://rattle.com/blog/2009/11/hurricane-bob-by-bob-brooks/ Poetry for everyone. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:18:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://rattle.com/blog/2009/11/hurricane-bob-by-bob-brooks/#comment-2063 Janis Lull Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:10:34 +0000 http://rattle.com/blog/?p=2375#comment-2063 I refuse to see Twitter as the end of poetry. I got fooled into that state of mind by Marshall McLuhan forty years ago, and here we still are--some of us--thinking that every word matters. A quotation is a quotation, even on Twitter. I refuse to see Twitter as the end of poetry. I got fooled into that state of mind by Marshall McLuhan forty years ago, and here we still are–some of us–thinking that every word matters. A quotation is a quotation, even on Twitter.

]]> http://rattle.com/blog/2009/11/hurricane-bob-by-bob-brooks/#comment-2062 Tim Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:06:39 +0000 http://rattle.com/blog/?p=2375#comment-2062 I disagree -- there's a difference between dropping a verb and dropping an aside that doesn't change the sentence, and wouldn't make sense out of context anyway. In a formal setting, of course I'd include the ellipse, but we're talking about Twitter, and I'm just trying to make people interested in reading the guy's poem. I disagree — there’s a difference between dropping a verb and dropping an aside that doesn’t change the sentence, and wouldn’t make sense out of context anyway. In a formal setting, of course I’d include the ellipse, but we’re talking about Twitter, and I’m just trying to make people interested in reading the guy’s poem.

]]> http://rattle.com/blog/2009/11/hurricane-bob-by-bob-brooks/#comment-2061 Janis Lull Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:38:47 +0000 http://rattle.com/blog/?p=2375#comment-2061 You misquoted this in the tweet. Not fair to the poet. Have to leave dots to show something left out. Feel strongly about this. How old Cary Grant? You misquoted this in the tweet. Not fair to the poet. Have to leave dots to show something left out. Feel strongly about this. How old Cary Grant?

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