>My server blocked up today and left me in blissful ignorance of whatever
>it was going on here. Am I to take it that all is civilised now? Can we
>go back to conversations about poetry?
I'm thinking maybe we can, Alison
but will say that, aside from just nt being all that nothered by the byplay
(it was read & dumped quite quickly), I do think the 'original' (hah!")
Kent Johnson, in his excerpts from the interview, had some interesting
points to make, & that (although I'm not sure I could ever create useful
heteronyms; but do like to collaborate with other texts, & therefore,
perhaps, lose 'self' as such in the act of writing) the problems he
approaches are ones we could & can take seriously.
But I also went & looked at the David Hess essay in Jacket 12, & although
it's so long I have only read parts of it, it signals a sharp intelligence
at work upon some of the poetry of our time. There's some 'use' there, in
other words.
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Take away my wisdom and my categories!
Phyllis Webb
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