Rupert:
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I take your criticism on the chin - but I think the weight of history and
poetry is with me.
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How very New Labour, if I may put it quite that rudely! History is also to
be Mr Blair's judge re: Iraq. (His words on 1 March 2003.) That sort of
rhetoric may not get us very far.
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Of course, I could be wrong, but from your tone you abide
without question marks.
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I'm not sure I follow the domiciliary references: 'abide' and 'Poetry' as a
'home'. I do regard Tutu as a very much more complex figure than his
characterisation as bobbing cork might suggest.
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Surely the whole point of poetry is to pose questions. Or do you disagree.
If you disagree, I suggest Poetry is no home for you.
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You're very Manichean about this. The _whole_ point of poetry? Perhaps it
is a prosthetic, supplying lacks, granting opportunities, _enabling_ us. I
prefer Magdalena Abakanowicz's formulation (see below), which seems to
me more open, less solipsistic, not least because she employs the first
person plural.
CW
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'Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence'
(Magdalena Abakanowicz )
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