"Music is my country"
Stravinsky
(Quoted from memory, so it may be inaccurate). I don't believe that
nationalism has anything to do with art, although nationality of
course is a factor in its expressive vocabularies -
Best
Alison
At 10:46 AM +0100 10/12/02, Liz Kirby wrote:
>To be with the nation is to be with the people which is a
>strategic question in terms of writing. Do writers need to be with the
>people?
>
>I cant let you away with this conflation Chris! 'The nation' is an ideology.
>Borders are permeable and leaky things constantly crossed and recrossed. My
>sense is that poets should be among the refugees not the border patrols!
>(Poetry is uncertain unreliable and constantly melting too)
>Liz
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