Erotics of poetry and erotics of ar - in all the way you cook these terms
and in all the fashion you present them with or without herbs and
condiments - remind of a poetry of an art that want to solicit, as the
etymology of the words erotic, eroticism, erotica do, an understanding of
art and poetry as being conceived or being devoted to, or else tending to
arouse sexual love.
Now, with all the respect for Sontag and her theory of the erotics of
peotry, why on earth should 'I' myself want to programmatically apply to my
writing that theory? thus write and publish a kind of poetry that - not in
a circumstantial, sporadic, cometical, id est unique instance – that is
when I am in love (all the time) or when I want to solicit sexual love
(very rarely) – should want to arouse sexual love and desire towards 1. my
writing itself or 2. towards poetry as such,... as though eroticism was
a necessary systematic ingredient without which poetry or better 'my'
poetry would be deprived of taste?
Erminia
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