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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: down with the down with poetry crowd
> On 21/1/05 5:00 PM, "Rebecca Seiferle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Well, I'd guess it depends on what 'an academic" is, which is a second
cousin
> > to
> > that insult heard in some circles of being an 'intellectual'.
>
> I meant simply someone who taught English in a university. Not,
> incidentally, a writer, but someone for whom I hold a deal of respect.
>
> Someone like Prynne is inconceivable outside the protective structures of
a
> university. On the other hand, the idea of career structures or other
> aspects of a "cultural industry" are highly problematic in the arts. I'm
> not saying that artists should not be paid - far from it. Nor am I
> suggesting that poets should not work in universities. I don't go in for
> the popular sport of academic bashing. But nevertheless, there is
something
> feral about the vocation of poetry which ought to be respected and
> recognised; it is a bad mistake to think of poetry solely as an aspect of
a
> liberal education.
>
> > Well, this arguing among poets
> > about what to get rid of, whether we should get poetry booted from
> > universities,
> > or booted from funding by organizations because their reasons may be
less
> > than pure, etc, seems to me somewhat ridiculous.
>
> Who's saying this?
>
> Best
>
> A
>
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
Oh it's me, don't worry...
And what I liked most was the sentence that followed:
- I keep thinking of two people
starving on a desert island, amusing themselves by thinking up imaginary
dishes, and then getting into arguments over which ingredients to
eliminate. -
Thank you Rebecca, this actually pictures the way I see arguments like these
on the lists.
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
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