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From: Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 27 January 1998 15:12
Douglas Clark writes _Lawrence asks me to pick some poets out of `out of
everywhere'. Here goes:
Lyn Hejinian
Rosmarie Waldrop
Lisa Robertson
Barbara Guest
and that's about it. E&OE. Now back to re-reading the Ted Hughes._
*No, *I *didn't and no way can my challenge have been *honestly been
misunderstood to be . _Lawrence asks me to pick some poets out..._
Because
Douglas Clark *had written _And before that Maggie O'Sullivan's anthology
`Out of everywhere'. I think I did find three or four poets out of the
wreckage but it was a hard task._
and I had responded
_surely it is only honest to name the poets, explain justify _wreckage_ and
_hard task_ and, generally, explain yourself.
No justification, no explanation, just the appearance of prejudice and
sneer.
This has the surface appearance of the STUPIDITY, the destructive stupidity,
that was what was opposed at The Poetry Society and which still makes the
nation's favourite poem Why I scratch my bottom by Lord Cliff Betjeman...
What I like, for reasons I reserve my right not to give you, *is poetry.
What I don't like, and in that of course I include what I cannot understand
for a variety of reasons including ignorance, prejudice, misreading and
back-scratching, is *not poetry.
Not wishing to confuse Douglas Clark's fine grasp of poetry with the
yahooism described above, and not wishing anyone else to, I ask him AGAIN to
justify _wreckage_ and _hard task_ and, generally, explain himself; I look
forward to his explanation why each of the poets in Out Of Everywhere who
are not in his little list, he's got a little list, is not a poet.
Diana Bless
L
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