> While we're at it, you do, like most of us, suck at the trough of
bourgeois
> society. By the way
Yes, Mark, we do.
Altho' I can claim impeccable Brit working class credentials I'm very aware
too that my relative poverty is wealth by the standards of the Third World
and as well I have no idea what investments my company pension fund derives
its returns from.
Mea culpa, altho' I'm very innocent by nature.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: Postmodern?/more baroque
> You don't really mean that. Just throw anything at the page? Learn nothing
> from the practice of one's craft?
>
> Of course I could say that any prestructured project reifies hierarchy,
but
> that would be pretty dumb. Also tactless and (intellectually) immature.
>
> If you don't want to engage an argument just say so. This sort of sidestep
> just pisses me off. I have a hard time abiding political accusations or
> fools in silence. Reminds me, I guess, of the endless arguments of my
> adolescence about who was a better Trotskyist.
>
> While we're at it, you do, like most of us, suck at the trough of
bourgeois
> society. By the way.
>
> Mark
>
> At 08:49 PM 9/10/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >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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