The catastrophe (not tragedy) [I trust literary folk will be able to parse
this distinction] of 9/11 has ceased to be an event & has become a pretext
for various textual manipulations. Which have precious little to do with
poetry. Perhaps this is the way history gets written, but it makes me sick
at heart. I'm hopelessly passé in this, but I'm with Wordsworth: poetry is
more philosophical than history.
jd
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Joseph Duemer
School of Liberal Arts / 5750
Clarkson University
Potsdam NY 13699
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