Yes, Bob, I suppose in a sense the key document of anglophone culture
precedes it and is in Latin - the Domesday Book - there the claim to own
reality is unambiguous and it is, metaphorically, what happens in
'mainstream' or 'ratified' poetry (and fiction). It is poetry as property
investment, I guess. This poem will pass the Doctor Johnson test, is solid
and can be touched and measured, so too its poet is substantial, unlike all
you jerks who disappear as fast as mayflies.
On 20 June 2010 12:12, Bob Grumman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Question One:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 'Boring, unimaginative, timid, cramped, predictable, toothless,
>>>> inhibited,
>>>> terminally dull ..' is this excerpt from a description of a) the England
>>>> football team's performance against Algeria last night or b) a summary
>>>> of
>>>> current British poetry?
>>>>
>>> I agree with the sentiment behind this question but would change (b)
> slightly to a summary of cuirremt academically-ratified and commercially or
> semi-commercially distributed anglophonic poetry.
>
> --Bob
>
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