Hi Andrew
It was in the essay Dom pointed out at
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/044106.html
The actual quote is:
This is the genius of the new Literary Access programs: the more you dilute
art, the more you appear to increase the access. But access to what? Not to
anything that would give a reader or listener any strong sense that poetry
matters, but rather access to a watered down version that lacks the cultural
edge and the aesthetic sharpness of the best popular and mass culture. The
only reason that poetry matters is that is has something different to offer,
something slower on the uptake, maybe, but more intense for all that, and
also something necessarily smaller in scale in terms of audience. Not better
than mass culture but a crucial alternative to it.
Cheers
A
On 21/1/05 2:07 PM, "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Alison - I'd love to track down that indirect quote you ended on - > Was it
> Bernstein who said that what matters is that poets make poetry that
> matters? < Has anyone a reference for this? I want to use it, so want to
> attribute it correctly.
>
> Andrew
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