the same old encumbered umbrage of "this poem doesn't read like a blurb or
an ad, it must be way too dense for me!" I always try telling people who are
new to reading poetry that the reading itself isn't like some quest for an
utmost truth or meaning or purpose, but about *your* (the reader's) own
individual meaning that is to be found in any poem, all poems, every poem.
and that not every poem even endeavours to be liked or understood. if any
given poem can be said to have "a soul", that soul is certainly coloured in
by every new pair of cerebral hemispheres that takes a look at it.
KS
On 16 September 2010 00:38, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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> http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2010/09/15/stephen-burt/as-if-no-ones-listening-except-us/
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> with which we can each take some umbrage or agree...
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> Doug
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> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the
> opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the
> community.
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> Oscar Wilde
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