re: the recent it's a poem it's not a poem, thought I'd make a giddy
gesture with the Donkey tail pin (from an essay I'm coughing up over
a poem of Prynne's):
"Poetry elects content as a platform for value, and in this sense itself
exists only as the opportunity for and of that platform. "Poetry makes
things happen" is therefore a falsehood - even its less aggressively
scrutinized connotations are likely to be false: poetry does not allow
after the fashion of a valued content's allowing, it does not promote the
possibility of content, which is after all already a recognized
possibility, but merely characterizes the reality of contents as
opportune [...] That is to say, poetry takes part in content and in
content's accident, but does so in the way that a motivating voice inside
my head takes part in the crimes I commit physically: it characterizes a
circumstance as opportune, and whilst it can be taken into account or even
held responsible for my actions, it cannot be indicted. Only I can be
indicted."
this makes even less sense as an extract, and is a minor excursus indeed
within the essay, but hey it's sunny as Charlie Brown here
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