>I avoid 'risk' not entirely, but incidentally and in favour of 'hazard';
>partly I suppose this is just a desire to register how frequent the former
>term has become in discussions of poetry. Often the risk advertised is
>merely that of fiddling with syntax. I put this tersely, but was
>impressed by Lee Harwood's comparison with (eg) Mandelstam (we might add
>Brecht?).
>Really the point is that risk is not only -to be taken-, but is to be
>taken at a point and within circumstances of some manifest danger, and in
>service of some idea or prospect that this danger seems to inhibit.
Point taken. Maybe the risk to notice is that which is manifest, not
advertised!
A number of thoughts on this, and no time...
After my plaintive wishings to read more Prynne, my copy of the Poems
arrived today. I've only done the initiatory flipping and tasting, and
read the first book, and no doubt will be effectively silenced while I
read the whole thing - but first responses are that the poems offer
themselves with a rare and beautiful generosity, and that the first book
recalls to me nothing so much as Rilke, and that insistently.
Best
Alison
Alison Croggon
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