Alison --
"Truth as objective logic and fact is where I start to feel uncomfortable,
and wonder whether it might be asking the wrong question (why is this
apple not a pear?): poetry surely is able to insist other truths (how
often is experience merely logical, factual and objective?) I don't mean
the irrational, where logic often assigns these things."
Yes absolutely, and Olson is a good example. In fact I suspect most poets
would not only have conceded this, but would have wanted actively to claim
it. Still it's worth making the distinction, particularly when talking
about someone like Olson who was so rabidly mistrustful of official
scholarly and scientific culture.
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