I am back again from the north woods, & have a few thoughts on this frayed
thread. . . or a few corrections. . .
when I juxtapose the idea of a "radical egalitarian" poetics with the idea
of a "dominant discourse/radical poet" binary poetics, I don't want to
minimize the power of ideology. But my thought is that poetry involves an
imaginative form of intervention, a practice from the far side of the
brain, so to speak, or a constructive elsewhere. & if the makers /
receptors of poetry create a relationship of kinship / equality, this sets
up a different dynamic from the Hero Rebel poet who addresses Enemy
Dominant & thus wins his/her reward.
These different aspects (resistance vs. exploration, say) aren't monolithic
or completely, mutually exclusive, however. . . every poet transcends the
categories. . .
Henry
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