Hi Gillian
>As to poets who scale the "resistance of their language in order
>to subvert various ideas of poetry as commodity" I'm probably less kind than
>you. I'm more likely to dismiss them as ideologues who are welcome to their
>games.
That might be easy if those poets didn't produce work that I, at least,
would feel the poorer for not having, and are not so easily enclosed in
claims of ideology. I suppose Prynne being the easy example here.
Doesn't mean that one can't, or shouldn't, argue with it: but do you have
to agree with it as well? But as Bachelard claims (and in the end, I
agree), in order to understand a poem, one has first to admire it: which
I take as a kind of surrender of expectations.
Best
Alison
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