> Poets should speak out against these vicious
> attacks and should implore the institutions mentioned in the article...to publicly support
> Prof. Alcalay
> before this escalates into another Amiri Baraka or Ward Churchill type
> affair.
So, what's Prof. Alcalay said that would compare to the
foaming-at-the-mouth idiocies of the other two then? If I were him, I
wouldn't relish being bracketed with a chucklehead like Churchill and
a macho racist anti-semitic conspiracy-theorizing homophobic
misogynist (is that all?) like Baraka.
In the interests of a fair and balanced distribution of insult, I
should add that the Campus Watch article is staggeringly crass and
illiterate. "But his work has become the focus of like-minded leftist
writers...who also use their poetry as politics, rather than art."
Politics rather than art? Oh, my! Never before in the history of
literary endeavour...ect.
It's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? - I express my concerns,
you politicize, he is a sinister propagandist.
Dominic
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