Alison
you finish that very powerfukl & thoughtful response with:
>And what can poetry do? Except perhaps create and preserve,
>however minorly, possibilities of human complexity and meaning and
>relationship which sometimes seem in danger of extinction. Is that worth
>doing? In a wider sense, I don't know. For myself, I give it a value.
And you make lots of sense. Yeah: value is as value does. Thanks for that.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
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