Hi Doug
On 26/10/05 12:23 AM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Alison: I've never read that deeply into Stevens, so, knowing only
> some of the best known poems, I didn't know he was a misogynist. What I
> do know is that, although great at what he does, what he does isn't as
> much what I try to do as those in the Pound-WIlliams lineage...
I've always been a sucker for sheer beauty. When I was around 12 I pinched
the Albatross Book of Verse from my father and claimed it as my own. It's
actually quite a good anthology, though as I remember I took no notice of
any of the names of the poets in it. The Idea of Order at Key West and
Susannah and the Elders just hypnotised me.
But there is something indefinably cold in the poetry, which comes out as an
empty formal purity in the lesser works. I remember a poetry which
explicitly excluded women, but not in the way that, say, Baudelaire does,
which somehow doesn't bother me as much (I just growl, you bastard, and read
on).
Best
A
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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