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	19.5.04 A Relevant Post  You deserve it. In the interest of creating a response-generating monster, and as a tasty morsel for grad students, the graduate-bound, and the covetous alike, I give you the vital things I have learned from a year of graduate study in a top English program. I'm perfectly cheery, if you can't tell. - Departments with cohesive identities do not include people from other departments in those identities. - Everyone claims to drink more than he/she does. - The worse a poem, story, novel, or play is, the more 'interesting' people will find it. - If you can't fathom why, it will be a fad. - Theory doesn't cut it as literature. - Declaiming poetry is a joy forever. - I am a fraud. - A poem & a paper should kill each other. - I am the only man of my generation who reads the poetry of my generation. - Grad students somehow have more money than you think they do. - There is a serious problem in the terminology if what both CPR and Representations do is called 'criticism.' - The great new American poetry (and there is such a thing) should be called post-American. - No matter what anyone says, the closest thing to poetry will always be music. - Oh, bloodbelly comb jelly! - Every so often, I think of W. B. Stanford's book, Enemies of Poetry.  :: 4:56 PM
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