At 1:34 PM -0400 27/10/2001, Pierre Joris wrote:
> very 'moving' comment, pierre. I may be conflating too much
>here, but intriguing for me inthe realm of anthropological analyses of
>performance, healing, and curing from kristeva per Briggs and Bauman
>[theory that can be skimmed or scrimped]. leads to the conclusion that
>in present situation, as in most, poetry is the bearer of the 'real'
>news? tom bell Tom -- yes, I wld say so --
>or would want to say so, despite the fact that, as Allison says in her
>response, prose may be the only answer, for the time being, or whatever
>that writing is that is as close to the bone and as clear as we can get
>it. But even then, as I did by simply wanting to bring in a prose text
>by Adonis, we slip up, or the outside slips in (a definition of poetry?
>"writing where the outside slips in and the inside slips out"?) in the
>shape of typos -- "anthrax" instead of "time" -- and that's exactly
>where, as Robert Duncan taught us, we have to start writing from, those
>mis/takes. Pierre
Funny, I read Adonis' prose text as a poem. Nor do I think I was mis/taken
in that. But, without in the least disputing the need for clarity and
sharpness, I think I want to write prose because there I can find the
disorderliness and amplitude I want, and also the irreverence and cruelty
of parallel realities (which then, maybe, permit me to see the cruelties of
our own). Making the inside/outside slippages explicit rather than
implicit subtlelties in the text. Room to move. I don't know why poetry
doesn't seem to answer this at the moment - it's not as if those resources
aren't there also for a poem. But all I can write in poetry is crude
clarities.
Best
A
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