Lars is forgetting that some poets have very good 'tubes' and really know
how to squeeze and spread the stuff - and clean out everybody really good.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> With reference to another conversation we were having recently, this
> from a friend, seems pertinent:
>
> The idea that emotions should have some special sort of sanctuary
> inside poetry is the consequence of an aesthetic which I used to call
> "toothpaste aesthetics." The poet is perceived of as existing inside a
> tube containing passions and unstable emotional life. When you press on
> this tube, feelings are expressed and turned into poetical expression.
> Whatever you might think about this model, whatever it leads to, it
> doesn't lead to poetry.--Lars Gustafsson, "A Defence of Poetry."
>
> Well. Okay.
>
> Doug
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>
> the precision of openness
> is not a vagueness
> it is an accumulation
> cumulous
>
> bpNichol
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