Dear Edmund
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From: Edmund Hardy <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Sunday, August 07, 2005 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: Not exactly Hiroshima but unhealed wounds
>The But was meant to say, But rather than thinking of guilt, its nebulous
presence or absence in a Country, instead the thinking-through of a
social-political past which has created the present.
Very good. I agree with that. (I'm sure that'll go round the networks!)
>To me, it seems that, in
writing/speaking, it's the historicity of language that is substance and
context of a poem, which is why the question of the historicity of
living-as-ethical-task seems a doubly vital one.
Yes
>Tangentially, is it that the personification of groups of people, say more
commonly as "We...", seems tempting because it draws the speaker out from
the locked-in self, and into the feeling of being multiple, that a hundred
other voices speak through us, which temptation then runs against the
political problem of representation? And another question in poetry is how
to run out from a presented self without speaking-for. By recourse to the
democratic nature of language, as maybe happens in Language poetry?
>I don't know, I don't know.
No, nor do I; but you identify a very real poetic problem
Thank you for all that
L
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