Erminia:
>pragmatically speaking on what basis people compose poetry nowadays,
>according to what project?
>The role of authorial intention is still at the base of our exchange as
>poets or is poetic pragmatism back? In Italy it is still very much the case
>of what happens. Can it be possible that poets can regress to
>unintentional meanings (intentionless sense) . . .
This zipped past me yesterday, in part because I'm not sure I'm
unpicking the sense properly, but I take it as asking how poets 'in
these islands' proceed in the light of theoretical questioning of
authorial intentionality. (And that's about as ugly a sentence as I
ever hope to start a day with!)
After all my yapping yesterday, I'd prefer to keep my lip buttoned a
little more today, but I'll try to address this in terms of my own
practice if anyone else wants to jump in first and take the
Narcissistic look off it.
It's a necessary consideration, I think, whether driven by 'theory'
or not, but I'm not at all sure how prevalent it is outside of LangPo
circles, and the equivalents here around Cambridge, Dartington, and
occasional environs of Dublin.
Any takers?
Trevor
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