>
>I think the Page poem is getting a slightly disproportionate hammering (odd
>notion that, 'hammering the ironing') as much because of the angle it has
>obtruded upon us (or us for the most part) as for its qualities. That of a
>piece from, and for, 'on high', this Important and International Event
>that
>purports to be speaking for, my, such a muchness of a lot.
>
Chris Hayden adds: I have to agree totally. I think we are imagining that
the whole world will be waiting with bated breath, gathered around radios,
tvs, and computer screens for the Olympian Decrees on Life, The Universe and
Everything to come down from The Poets. You could announce you are going to
do a poem calling for the violent overthrow of all the world's governments,
and I bet, aside from other poets and writers, who are likely to make up
most of the audience, the others listening will be U.N. officials, who will
not be amused by controversy. Though, in times like these, I could probably
use a spirited rendering by such as messrs.Bircumshaw and Weiss of
Ginsburg's "America" (with its rib-tickling "Go fuck yourself with your atom
bomb")
We aint likely to get it.
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