> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 22:15:55 -0800 (PST)
> From: Marjorie Perloff <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Karlien van den Beukel <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
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> Subject: Re: Marjorie's posting -Reply
> Reply-to: Marjorie Perloff <[log in to unmask]>
> In these poems, language is largely
> transparent, just a vehicle to get you to various important "themes" and
> ideas.
The closest thing to a transparent vehicle was, of course, the
Sixties` Bubble Car. Can I, for one, hold up an affirming flame for
the role of language and the language of poetry in getting us to
consider various important "themes" and ideas? Not that anyone
wouldn`t, so what is wrong with a certain thread of ideology still
prominent (in its field) in the US that makes justly celebrated
critics come out with statements like the above?
robin
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