To what degree, however, is the vocation of poetry (calling) & practice of
making poems a religious practice? One that I suggest is not particularly
sweeping this world, which I guess these days provides us poets some sense
of a particular kind of Virtue! (Is not Bush an Anti-Christ - as I want to
understand the killer implciations of that term - and an Anti-Poet - at the
same time. (I would, and I cannot imagine many, drawn to repeat his speech
(language)), or personally be shaped by it).
I suggest there is something (in the faith of writing and reading poems)
that is comparable to prayer. A place where the invisible becomes articulate
as language. A mystery by definition. As curious as a featherless dinosaur.
As science now points out that dinosaurs did not disappear, but that they
are the birds now flying about and still very much living amongst us.
I better "trip" back into my work - my secular obligations du jour!
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Where the "Tenderly, Gertrude Improvs" continue
> I'm not even a Marxist, unreconstructed or not, but I have to agree
> with this.
>
> Alas.
>
> Of course, it goes with televangelism, of all faiths..., that form of
> spiritual consumerism...
>
> Doug
> On 15-Mar-06, at 8:01 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
>
>> As an unreconstructed marxist, I view the tide of religiosity
>> sweeping the world as a more effective, genuinely popular form of what
>> fascism attempted.
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Whatıs receivedıs given out
> in smaller measure. The speaker as hearer
> comprehends what he canıt
> say, a music of what sounds him.
>
> Wayne Clifford
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