Whew, with a certain happy humility, I thank you all, Andrew, Knut,
Martin, & others, for these comments. It's really neat to see how much
active readers bring to a text, finding various possibilities there.
Yesterday, at our first Edmonton Poetry Festival, I chaired a panel of
various poets laureate, partly asking about the political/poetical
thing; wasn't thinking about this, but of course, as our own
conversation on these matters has suggested, the connections are
sometime just there...
I've really found all the snaps this week charged & so interesting. Not
to mention the highly visual powers Peter continually harnesses in such
as 'We say...'.
Doug
On 21-Sep-06, at 4:25 AM, MJ Walker wrote:
> A stunner, Doug. Gunslinger, Cohen, Camus are, of course, evoked
> immediately, but from the start this has its own wordplay, its own
> word-engendered ludic metaphysic, dizzying the mind. This is a sonnet
> for today, casually preserving the form in a vortex of ideas rushing
> very sibylantly to a close.
> mj
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Where philosophy stops, poetry is impelled to begin. He was
a man, far away from home, biting his nails at destiny.
Susan Howe
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