How odd to equate clarity in poetry with naturalism in art.
As I don't support your proposition, I must dismiss your conclusions as most
peculiar.
Gillian
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Sent: Thursday, 13 July 2000 7:54
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Subject: clarity, or obsolete figurative art?
"Roddy invited comment on the "laziness and bad
manners" of poets who eschew
clarity. I'd say it was more a fault of ego than of
laziness and bad
manners."
Just like the laziness and bad manners and egotism of
painters who eschew naturalism, huh? Bloody lazy
Piccasso, Mondrian, Pollock,Matisse...Caravaggio, for
that matter...
Honestly, if you guys can't come into the
twenty-first
century at least you could try the door of the
twentieth. Either that or you'll end with
anthropologists reading your poems in your own
lifetime :)
Cheers
Scott Hamilton
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