>By the way, I certainly recall us wrangling, as you say, but not over
>the current issue. My memory is that we have been civil and proper
>to each other when discussing this?
I meant wrangle in a benign sense, Kent, 'wrangling out an issue' or such
sorts.
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "KENT JOHNSON" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 3:29 PM
Subject: Hoaxes and Heteronymity interview
Argh on the below, David. In our "wrangling" I've said more than
once that a work like Yasusada has nothing to do with folkloric
anonymity. It represents the creation of an author, with a biography
and a poetic and epistolary corpus, that includes letters and
musings left by his translators.
In such creations (Yasusada is only a limited, perhaps in ways
awkward, expression of possibilities), the "biological author(s)"
may relate to the heteronym(s) in any number of public forms. But
to engage in the production of authorships in no way precludes
writing and presenting in more conventional ways. We all have our
driver's licenses and ID cards, after all...
By the way, I certainly recall us wrangling, as you say, but not over
the current issue. My memory is that we have been civil and proper
to each other when discussing this?
Kent
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David said,
I've wrangled about some of the issues pertaining with Kent before:
if he is consistent in his approach then surely he should publish
anonymously, at all times, how can one square a critique of the
individual author with aspiring to an individual career in, in this
case, poetry? (By career I do not necessarily imply a +paid+
career) Doesn't the fact that we have heard of Kent undermine
some of the tenets of his project?
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