Dear Karlien
I`ve read "Resistance & Difficulty." It slipped my mind, but
actually, yes, you`re right. It could only be"by" J.H. Prynne, if,
on hearing the name, you think, "Ah, yes, the author of Force of
Circumstances and other Poems." R&D is odd; straightforwardly
phenomenological, then he pulls out "the imagination" and a poem by
Hopkins, like pebbles in his pocket. As if Hopkins` mode of
attention to Stuff, as manifestation of God`s Grandeur, finds its
secular equivalent in phenomenology: Stuff is hard, and this matters.
David Marriott and some others mention R&D as if it is still relevant
to his later work, but it seems to me that something like A Note On
Metal is thoroughly Marxist and represents a seismic shift in
outlook, towards a history of the meaning of the meaning of objects,
as they are created, rather than just lying there to be found out.
robin
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