This is interesting. I'm not sure how woman-hating Stevens was, but what
does come across to me is a certain coldness towards people, despite the
aesthetic beauty that can be there. I am aware that my seeing, feeling etc
of the poems maybe partly preticated on my being male, so I might miss
things that a woman might see as staringly obvious.
I tend to annoyed with Stevens about the political stuff, y'know, fan of
Mussolini etc, and also the crap he wrote in his first book, oh yeah, too,
the iambics, di-dum, dee-dumb.
Drone.
Best
Dave
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: which poet would you be + Jenniffer Lesh
> On 26/10/05 7:51 AM, "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > How is "something indefinably cold" misogynist?
>
> No, I was speaking of two different qualities: how the beauty of Stevens'
> language can become merely virtuosic, and how there are some real
> woman-hating poems there. Though they may be linked.
>
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> Alison Croggon
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