I don't know, but I take the point. Do we go all the way back to
Arnold? Or just follow the language(s) & hope that there(in) we will
find whatever solace, meditative possibility, etc we can? I guess
that's what I do.
As to the destruction of language by such as W, well, there is a level
beyond which parody & satire cannot go, & he & his types have long gone
beyond that.
I think we may have to go elsewhere than to that well, however much a
demonstration of such language's defects might seem useful....
Rather seek the numinous in poetry, though, or some aspect of the world
as I encounter it, than any 'promise' elsewhere....
Doug
On 16-Mar-06, at 11:41 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> 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
>> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
>> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
>> (780) 436 3320
>>
>> What’s received’s given out
>> in smaller measure. The speaker as hearer
>> comprehends what he can’t
>> say, a music of what sounds him.
>>
>> Wayne Clifford
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
What’s received’s given out
in smaller measure. The speaker as hearer
comprehends what he can’t
say, a music of what sounds him.
Wayne Clifford
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