Ruark
you're right to suggest that poetry (art) won't do much to change the lives
of, say, people forced to live in the street, I certainly wasn't trying to
say anything along that line.
Political will might. Therefore doing something in/with politics might make
change possible. On the other hand, the neo-conservative push (putsch?) we
feel all too clearly here in North America these days might be too strong
to overcome. It seems to have found ways to fool most of the people most of
the time, that's for sure.
But I'd take Ken's message that many of those out there didn't CHOOSE to be
as valid most of the time. And I'd agree that art won't do much to change
the situation, not directly anyway.
I think the list has been going since 1999?
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
No one could be
more hostile than a species enclosed in
a chimney for a century or so they told me.
Clark Coolidge
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