Tim , it's the quote in the second par - xA
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On 31/08/2009, at 8:09 PM, Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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