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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: which poet would you be + Jenniffer Lesh
> 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
>
How is "something indefinably cold" misogynist?
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