Hi Deb
>doesn't poetry - written by those who align themselves with the left - arise
>from the politics of complex thought?
Well, those from the right can be complex also. Said describes Swift as
a Tory anarchist... and I've seen some very simple-minded agitprop from
the Left.
Obviously the binaries of right and left don't work very well when
applied to poetry. it shrugs them off. I often think in connection with
this of Musil's insistence that he was an apolitical writer. From our
perspective, he often looks political...but he thought of his apoliticism
as a political stance which was inherently _literary_.
Cheers
Alison
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