On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:29:39 -0700, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>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
By the way: tact and maturity are no reelvant measures for poetry.
these are good measures for bourgeois society.
erminia
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