I don't see how Robin can take the assumptions he does. My comment,
>we keep getting snagged on a pretended distinction between
>"political poetry" (= rants) versus "poetry", whose political effect
>is oblique.
means the opposite to Robin's
"Doug`s own position maintains a difference between a poetry that (to my
mind) dreams an effect of effectiveness by being relatively "accessible", and
a
poetry which forecloses its own effective and public possibility, by
being "difficult". This correlates with the classic metaphysical
gesture as diagnosed by you-know-who...maintenance of a distinction
between agora-appropriate-and-effective `speech` and its secondary,
derivative representation, writing."
I have no oppositions of any such kind. I am for the variousness of poetic
action and effect and genre. This is my constantly stated and often unpopular
position.
Doug
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