i'm afraid it's me again
point one - i like this list, despite its sometimes gravitatation
towards academia, i'd particularly mention the postings of alison
croggan, lawrence upton & stephen pain, all of which, to use the cliche,
give food for thought.
point two - was very taken by parts of alison's most recent - re Gulf
War re J.H.Prynne - that she feels 'unease' about mr jeremy's poesy in
respect of that techno-slaughter (hey, the pilots said, this's like
playing an arcade game) does i think support my suspicion of the
well-intentioned remoteness of CamPo.
point trois - i got 'into' poetry for very simple reason that it 'spoke'
to me, not because of any theoretical impulse, not because i thought it
could put what was wrong right, what i found was an area where words
could do what music does, but on a finer scale.
point four - with regards to my posted poem - 'The Madness of King
David' - whatever its aesthetic qualuities are or aren't - i.e. maybe
its botched maybe its not - the idea was to find a seam of language that
described psychological dislocation, or conveyed it perhaps.
stephen in japan, god bless him, has so far been the only person to
'engage' with it. what i would like to see in this list - which by the
way i regard as precious - is more of that openness, more engagement.
point five & final - after all, whatever the 'status' of any of us as
poets, i don't think a bit more 'upfrontness' rather than cool apartness
will do anyone any harm. indeed, it might do the opposite.
regards from the man from warwickshire
& love all round
david
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