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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Dead ends
> The reader also begins and ends in a state of becoming.
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> I'm not a language poet.
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Didn't think you were a langpo. More tolerant of them, probably. As for
the reader also beginning and ending in a state of becoming, that hardly
disproves my argument. The mind-set for reading poetry and even a large
part of the responses to a given poem are also pre-set, conventional. It's
very hard to engineer a new emotion or insight. As for reading, I think I
do a fair bit. What I won't do is admire something simply to be au courant.
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