Kwnt
perhaps that is the point: 'the issue is that he is *heard by many and
taken quite seriously by many*.' But, is he? I had bever heard of him
before. Nor, had I heard of the david whomever who wrote that scathing
review of his book (which will be read by how many? how soon remaindered ?
etc.) (And I am more than willing to admit that my work may be read by very
few people too). Does it/he matter?
I am willing to believe that a really interesting conversation can take
place over the ways in which traditional forms and non-traditioinal forms
can *be of use*, & that the extraordinarily complex history of modernist
poetry/writing can always be further, and more deeply, queried (I recently
finally got around to reading the wonderful _Stone Cottage_ which is, in
many ways, an eye-opener about the relations between Pound and Yeats).
But I'm not so sure someone like Lind, who I suspect only holds forth for
moola, can contribute much to such a conversation... and we're already
doing quite a job, as the increasing number of e-mails each morning
demonstrates...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
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Beauty's whatever
makes the adrenalin run.
John Newlove
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