Thanks for liking my poem Joe.
As I was saying last night I feel that the crux of postmodern poetry
is its impersonality, as opposed to the personal feel evident in
vaguely mainstream work. Where impersonal poetry has a personal
'voice' it transcends itself and I did include some of this work
in Lynx. But the pure impersonal is not for me.
This is why it is well worth buying Trevor's book from Randolph
because you can see him leave personal to impersonal as he develops
but he cant help but impose a personal 'voice' on the impersonal
in his final major piece of work. It is quite fascinating.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Joseph Duemer wrote:
> Being post-modern is more of a condition to be negotiated than a choice to
> be made.
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