> Another question that globalisation poses is: What
> is the role of poetry in
> questioning the move away from the local, as
> resistance to the
> homogenization of everyday life and the illusion of
> proximity we get from
> new technologies. Maybe there is no virtual reality
> and we need to learn to
> experience the real before and around us.
>
This is a question dear to my heart, Billy. How to be
present to what is there.
I'm not exactly sure that poetry can hold answers to
that, being as it is already a confession of absence
or estrangement. Language can as easily be a shield
as a threshold. But a poem may signal an alertness or
an attention which invites that difficult way of
being. Sometimes the real is unbearable, as much
because of its joy as its pain.
Best
Alison
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