Comments on: “Hurricane Bob” by Bob Brooks

By: Janis Lull

Janis Lull — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:10:34 +0000

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.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:06:39 +0000

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.

By: Janis Lull

Janis Lull — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:38:47 +0000

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?