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Hi A, Suppose it were granted that all (serious [not sure if you're retaining this after Geraldine's objections]) poetry is prayer, and that all religious texts are poetic (is this really 'the other way round' as Lawrence asked?), what difference would it make? I'm not being flippant or (I hope) trivial. I'm just wondering how this might affect one's actions in the world, particularly as a poet. After all, if, crudely, A=B and B=A, then a single term will do, and we can jettison the terms 'poetry', 'poet', etc. No? Or at least franchise them permanently to Hallmark. And where would that get us? Since that's a course I'm reluctant to take, I think it means I demur, but I'd like to know what effects you see cascading from the identification. Time for coffee. T >(Lawrence, I assume you want this sent to the list?) - In Conjunctions and >Disjunctions, Octavio Paz certainly argues that all religious texts are >poetic - and must be because they draw together the sacred and the profane, >the signs of the body and the non-body - > >Best > >A > > On 9/3/04 9:13 AM, "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]> >wrote: > >> or the other way round? >> >> >> L >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> >> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: 08 March 2004 22:21 >> Subject: Re: God & Religion >> >> >>> It also gives me the excuse to say what I didn't have the courage to say >>> before, since I will be jumped on for conflating too many categories, that >>> at bottom I think all really serious poetry is a kind of prayer. >> > > > >Alison Croggon > >Editor, Masthead >http://www.masthead.net.au > >Home page >http://www.alisoncroggon.com > >Blog >http://alisoncroggon.blogspot.com -- ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.soundeye.org/trevorjoyce