On 13/6/04 5:31 AM, "mallin1" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Poetry requires, in an important sense, both an engagement with poets and
> their attendant contradictions - inevitably broken open by the larger
> contradictions of this world. This is why I'm a lot 'airy-fairy' and liberal -
> and always hope this excellent list remains liberal enough for all our
> concerns and hopes.
Hi Rupert - I like your defence of airy-fairiness. Perhaps it's not a
stretch to see it as a defence of negative capability. Contradiction and
conflict are precisely those things airbrushed out of popular culture, which
copes with those things by false resolutions a la Disney or substituting
false conflicts, choices which are not choices (which brand of toothpaste?);
the energies which might otherwise be expressed this way flow instead into
faux conflicts, which then become truly deadly (the mass media on the Iraq
war). Maybe poetry is at the heart and not the margins.
Best
A
Alison Croggon
Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
Blogs: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com http://alisoncroggon.blogspot.com
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