Yup, well said, Kent.
The problem is, in terms of language, and ultimately poetics, rhetoric.
Where the wind says +I know, I know+.
But I know I don't know. 'Cept for simplicities such as 'two wrongs do not
make a right'.
But, again, I'm just stupid, a no-mark, as they say in Liverpool. My
opinions are worthless (there is no money behind them) unlike say Andrew
Motion, Billy Collins, Maya Angelou, Roger McGough etc etc, those champions
of nothing, maybe they should all read together at the United Nations, let
us all praise poetry that means and says nothing, it will fit in so well
with the powers that be.
The wind, the empty reaving wing. Over the bare land.
(Kent, give us a contact for the SWP, anything's better than the current
state of affairs)
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
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----- Original Message -----
From: "KENT JOHNSON" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:06 PM
Subject: Killer Jews
Douglas,
I know the emotions involved are very strong on the current
situation in Israel and Palestine, but it seems to me that there may
have been more complex and powerful ways than your chosen
phrase to express anger in the poem? No doubt you were talking
about *the particular* people who have killed Palestinians, but the
passage does come off as a more general and antisemitic
reference.
I could be wrong, but my strong guess is that Darwoush would say
such language is not the kind required at this time from poets.
Kent
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