hi Lawrence,
I like your formulation of an 'elitist' as someone who forces you to feel
as if your expectations and ambitions have made him feel inadequate or
frightened.
I want to have a go at your question about imagination though. I mean have
a go at responding to it, writing some more dodgy trill. My sense of
imagination is that it is still a useful word - although I'm always
prepared to be proved otherwise. Imagination is a (not the) location of
projection or leap or catastrophic curve; a point of transformation of
thought process through a mill of arrivals and departures. It requires
particulars of application, which might be considered to be the agency of
creativity.
Imagination might be hinted at as arrival of impetus or mobilisation of
energies, for the extraordinary to be refreshed from what might otherwise
be left as ordinary. I mean this in respect of objects, environments,
plans, conceptual frames, presences and more that are part and parcel of an
everyday. Imagination needs the agencies of possibility, however fanciful
or farfetched such possibility and creativity might be the articulation of
that possibility. Creativity is action. It is also a leap perhaps, but it
is a leap with the benefit of impetus. The diving board, or whatever has
already been oiled.
Imagination would be the buzz and creativity the articulation of the buzz.
What I meant to imply bu suggesting that poets are Technicians of
Imagination was that (and they are from from alone in doing so) poets
frequent locations of transformative possibility (are driven to or enabled
to do so or desrie to do so) perhaps more than the focus or demands of some
other peoples' lives allow. in that sense there is a qualitity which a poet
represents in a given community or society which might be seen as having
'value', however tenuous such value might appear from times to times.
It's interesting to me for example that Mischon de Reya, the London-based
solicitors, appointed a poet in residence to enhance the usages of language
in their firm so that they might perform 'better' in courtroom situations.
Law is as intimately related to language as poetry - now there's a
discussion topic.
love and love
cris
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