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Doug, Brings to mind both Theodor Adorno's famous formulation "there can be no poetry after Auschwitz" and Nancy Pelosi's wordless performative shredding of the officially printed version of yesterday's state of the nation address in "her" house by d.j.t. Barry On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 12:17:22 -0700, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >the poem refuses > it will not speak > it will not write > >this venal politics > surrounding us > surrounding it > >no beauty there >so the poem refuses > >so many people dying > so many fires floods > wars manifest & hidden > >but the poem refuses > to write them down > >the poem knows > what the poem knows > >& the poem knows > it must refuse > > >Douglas Barbour >[log in to unmask] >https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > >Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress). >Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). >Listen. If (UofAPress): > > > Done in by creation itself. > > I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too. >The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books? >We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming? > > Robert Kroetsch > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >######################################################################## > >To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1