Elizabeth: sorry for the misreading--though looking at the passage I'm
still a little unsure, since it's in a list of literary models for Powers'
views: St Thomas Aquinas, J-P Sartre, "His Nibs Sam Bethicket", & "that
Dublin thing" etc etc. But I'll take your word for it, since I'm certainly
not a regular Muldoon reader. Yes, he certainly does _not_ endorse Powers'
views; she in turn voices in the poem some of the concerns Trevor & I might
have: "you detected in me a tendency to put / on too much artificiality,
both as man and poet, / which is why you called me 'Polyester' or
'Polyurethane'."
I'll leave it there --N
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