Hurriedly:
>The trouble with poetry aesthetics that are conducted by the highly educated
>is that it becomes easy to insulate an aesthetic terrain from other
>poetries,
>scorned as half-baked, boring, etc. Practitioners who (whatever their
>ordinary social world) keep in poetry to tight intellectual circles don't
>often have to go round the regional writing clubs or run writing workshops
>where decent people may be honestly bewildered by verbal textures that are
>too dense, don't know how to interpret swift cultural moves beyond their
>ken,
>and genuinely like poetry I find a little boring.
Doug anticipated a thought I was revolving in my head about a naive
response to poetry which I think it's a shame to forget, a loss to
forget, even as you move on. And which certainly must never be sneered
at. When I was 12 I thought John Masefield and William Blake were the
bees' knees. Blake has survived into adulthood and Masefield has faded
into the shadows where he belongs: but that doesn't mean he wasn't an
important part of my learning to love poetry. And why else would you
read and write it? Lately I have been having inchoate thoughts about a
necessary crudity in art, which is kind of connected with this. But,
like I said, they're inchoate.
Best
Alison
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