> Where there's no power play invoked in poetry (however minute) you have
> simple-minded sweet talk, no?
The trouble is that this sort of argument is generally invoked to bring
simple-minded politics into poetry - or to justify political rant by poets
with small knowledge of the real world.
Why, when politics is brought into poetical discussion, does it always seem
to be the politics of Brecht or Pound - both exemplars in my view of
self-deception and bad faith?
What poetics tallies with a politics of toleration, democracy, intelligence,
empathy?
George
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George Simmers
Snakeskin Poetry Webzine is at
http://www.snakeskin.org.uk
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