that anger you caught, Fred, might indeed be a signal from your muse.
I managed the other day to delete all my Inbox (over 3000 posts) when
changing to a new mail server thingie, so I didn't have this, & am glad
Kasper included the whole thing....
Doug
On 21-Nov-07, at 4:17 AM, kasper salonen wrote:
> wonderful, great contextualisation & lovely lexical aplomb
>
> KS
>
> On 21/11/2007, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Envy and Dialectic
>>
>>
>> The *Paris Review* will never interview me.
>> If they did I'd go on and on
>> with fractious dicta and dreary nostalgia
>> of the sort that never get in my poems.
>> Eventually they'd have to publish
>> several volumes of interviews
>> with me,
>> like those someone did with Milosz
>> so that he could discuss
>> the effect of German bullets on strolls in Warsaw
>> and modern verse,
>> or the one he arranged so his friend Wat
>> could reminisce
>> about his stay in nine Gulag camps.
>>
>> They are full, such books, of sardonic, distanced,
>> aphoristic, humanistic wit,
>> and are read by few
>> outside their true audience,
>> which is History itself. Which is not
>> what marxists or ex-marxists
>> or even liberal Polish quasi-Catholics
>> think, but a roaring monster –
>> the roar so terrible it is the monster.
>> An aggrieved, outraged roar
>> like that of an Inquisitor
>> reading Spinoza, or
>> a Fox News commentator,
>> an abuser charged with abuse,
>> a hundred Kansas fathers learning
>> their daughters are pregnant lesbian Darwinists.
>>
>> You can hear it, a visceral rumble,
>> in everything that happens
>> and the background of sweet silent thought.
>>
>> It can't be, can it, the sensation
>> I interpret as signals from the muse?
>>
>>
>
>
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