The links between the
>poet and the literary/cultural theorist is somehow unavoidable. I myself
>do not believe in spontaneity and I hope that behind each poet there is a
>project not merely a vent of words, an outburst of tears or joy, the desire
>to give find expression for one’s wrath.
Theorists, some of them poets, will continue to theorize and occasionally
invent isms, but the impact of the link is certainly avoidable if theory
follows from, is derived from, practice.
Writing spontaneously doesn't mean writing egotistically. Writing with a
project in mind often does. One is finally only protected from oneself by
tact and maturity.
Mark
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