On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Karlien van den Beukel wrote:
> Political poetry can be a tactic which helps
> to disclose what is censored, or allude to the truth blanked out in those
> "good clear press releases". Not through presenting facts, nor even
> bearing witness to events, but through preparing for the "factive ground"
> which you take for granted is available to everyone [...]
> But I wouldn't say that this was the historical condition under which
> Keston labours.
- 'sright, Karlien, and thanks for reminding us of the situations in which
some poetic strategy has to be used as a means of oblique disclosure - and
it's true too that being in the UK may make one take such things for
granted, though actually I have, on occasions, drawn attention on this
list to strategies such as Doris Kareva's in this respect. But as you say,
finally, Keston ain't thus bound.
So although we've dismissed all the things he's not trying to do, we
should still look for other reasons for his decision to write thus, and
adapt any definitions we'd made which seem too narrow in the light of such
purpose.
RC
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