Alison, you'll have to tell me what Spicer said.
Tim
On 31 Aug 2009, at 11:05, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Hi Tim - I guess it depends what you mean by "influence". I was
> assuming that influence referred to the writing of poetry - I'd think
> that poems matter a whole lot more in that activity than what is said
> about them. Although of course others may work differently. I tend to
> agree with Jack Spicer on the question of theory and practice:
>
> Muses do exist, but now I know that they are not afraid to dirty their
> hands with explication - that they are patient with truth and
> commentary as long as it doesn't get into the poem, that they whisper
> (if you really let yourself hear them), "Talk all you want, baby, but
> _then_ let's go to bed." (from Admonitions)
>
> xA
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Tim Allen<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Not so sure about that Alison. I think that at times critical
>> thought about
>> poems is far more influential than the poems themselves. Time and
>> time again
>> it is not the poems themselves that cause aesthetic and ideological
>> disagreements but what is said about them by critics, which sets up
>> agendas.
>>
>> tim A.
>>
>> On 31 Aug 2009, at 01:13, Alison Croggon wrote:
>>
>>> But hey. I just wanted to say that critical thought about poetry
>>> is of
>>> course influential, but in the end it's not nearly as influential as
>>> poems.
>>
>
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