I read through the article and what got my attention was the mass of
footnotes at the end. Suddenly I was transported to the 1960's when
diatribes published by the ultra-rightwing John Birch Society had pages of
footnotes that sometimes outnumbered the pages of the article they
supported. Somehow the sheer volume of footnotes were supposed to legitimize
the argument of the article. Nonsense, of course.
"But his work has become the focus of like-minded leftist
writers...who also use their poetry as politics, rather than art."
Right. We're supposed to remember art has nothing to do with politics, that
the two are mutually exclusive. I mean, the author of the article knows
that, why don't we?
I don't like being pushed from the right or the left. Anyone yelling,
"You're a poet so you should..." can fuck off in my book.
Frank
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