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On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:59:56 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:53:16 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:51:01 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 12:25:22 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 11:30:15 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > Zod wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > George J. Dance wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >> On 2022-05-30 10:11 p.m., Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>> Your ignorance is showing again, Pendragon.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >>> Leonard Cohen was a successful poet years before he became a Folk Rock singer.
> > > > > >>>
> > > > >
> > > > > >> Indeed he was.
> > > > >
> > > > > >> "In 1961, McClelland & Stewart published Cohen's 2nd collection, The
> > > > > >> Spice-Box of Earth (1961), which received rave reviews and sold out its
> > > > > >> 1st printing. The book made him a public figure in Canada.[12] The book
> > > > > >> also helped Cohen gain critical recognition as an important new voice in
> > > > > >> Canadian poetry. Cohen biographer Ira Nadel stated that "reaction to the
> > > > > >> finished book was enthusiastic and admiring.... The critic Robert Weaver
> > > > > >> found it powerful and declared that Cohen was 'probably the best young
> > > > > >> poet in English Canada right now.'"[13]
> > > > >
> > > > > >>> HTH and HAND.
> > > > >
> > > > > >> He's probably better known as a singer/songwriter, but anyone who's
> > > > > >> learned anything about Cohen knows that he was a poet first.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Now try and get that across to the stupid V.D. Boy, the ignorant poetry bigot... ha ha.
> > > > > Pendragon finally seems to have stopped playing stupid and has accepted that Leonard Cohen was a poet years before becoming a singer-songwriter.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > What I said was that he was a successful folksinger/songwriter who parlayed his singing fame into a career as a "poet."
> > > You have it backwards, then.
> > >
> > > Leonard Cohen was a poet long before he was a singer.
> > >
> > > HTH and HAND.
> > Potato.
> You don't have to admit I'm right, Pendragon.
>
> Just stop playing stupid.

*yawn*



Michael Pendragon
"... it was written in a real boilerplate time of my life."
-- Will Dockery, on the lack of unoriginality of his youthful literary endeavors.