Yes, maybe we hope for, if not write for, the active reader/listener
(perhaps inside ourselves as well). Some work asks for a much more
active reading than others....
Doug
On 19-Feb-05, at 6:11 PM, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
> So it seems to me that reading is an active process, a
> kind of active responsiveness, so that the audience may be struck by,
> or
> breached, by what it hears, but what's heard is various from reader to
> reader
> and it's that variousness of possible response that seems to me to be
> the mark
> of a living poem, that each may hear it as if it spoke to one,
> profoundly, and yet
> this is not anything that the author could have intended for the
> particularities of
> this person or that one and so to think of reaching a particular
> audience, as if
> imagining a target one intended to strike, precludes that variousness
> of possible
> response. But then that's back to fuck the audience, which I too agree
> with.
Douglas Barbour
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