On 10/3/04 10:47 AM, "Trevor Joyce" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I like 'poise' here; not truth but comportment (okay, I'm smuggling a
> little). But this goes back, for me, to my question to Alison. Since
> I don't see God as made necessary within your argument, I'm left to
> ask why you reach to prayer for that poise, rather than to poetry.
I went back to look at what I originally said (For the record: "It also
gives me the excuse to say what I didn't have the courage to say before,
since I will be jumped on for conflating too many categories, that at bottom
I think all really serious poetry is a kind of prayer.")
Well, I can't say I wasn't aware that it might be contentious! But I'll
point loudly to the qualifier "a kind of". I don't think it points away
from poetry towards prayer, so much as it attempts to articulate something I
think poetry concerns itself with, as its "seriousness". I do think poetry
is a serious business, and in saying that I was trying to disengage it from
the vagaries that might be collected under the Hallmark imprint, rather
than, as Geraldine feared, closing off its possibilities into furrowed
brows.
Clear as mud, eh?
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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