Hi Claire
I think there's a danger of crossed-lines and
misconceptions threatening here, a not unknown event in e-mail-ville, but anyhow
'frangible' was around long before I discovered it, hence you are as free as
anyone else to use it.
Now Sharon Olds' poems: all I've seen seem to be
based on a language of psychotherapy, anecdote and first-foot-forward emotion,
in that she seems to assume that statements of feelinghood are equivalent to the
conveyance of them. I get the impression of an artist who hasn't got beyond the
ego's tender needs for ministrations.
Yes, this list is like a community, and presences
are vivid, but it's a specialization of a gathering, that let's us be, the big
outdoors plays havoc with our realities, and who are we to compete with the
material lords of power?
In the lingering of our words maybe, but not in the
out-and-out-there.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:57
PM
Subject: Re: Levinas's door/
collaboration/ ideology
Dave
Sorry about Alison - I must have
missed something - many things probably -
but thought frangible was your
(very stealable) word.
By the way, were this list to be perceived as a
community, Alison has a
distinctive presence on it, I meditate over her
posts for long times.
Just one thing - could you take me through the
thinking behind your judgement
of Sharon Olds' work?
Claire