As for me, Jon, I've never felt/sensed that "implied preface"
in any poem, old or now. Maybe you're reading "something"
into them?
Hal
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people in large groups."
--George Carlin
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On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Though it may seem a long way from these language (I use the term in a
> broad sense) poets to the various political and mainstream academic
> schools, all three of these major current English language poetry
> categories have in common that they produce poems with the implicit
> preface, "Here is how you should write poetry." In other words, they
> are lectures which are of no use to anybody. I must cede that at
> least the language school's poems don't add the implicit afterword of
> current political poems -- "And if you criticize that, you are a
> clod," --- or of the academic ones -- "Can I have tenure now?"
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