I like your casual reference to 'that line of Badiou's', Dom.
Well, from what little I know of Badiou I believe he uses the poetry
of Mallarme and Pessoa as his reference. Now I can understand the line
in relation to Mallarme, and too in respect of some sides of Pessoa,
though not to all his disintegrating personae, but otherwise it
excludes too much.
Most poetry ever written in fact.
I did, though, say I thought the piece was rhetoric, not poetry. As
one would expect from rhetoric, it is wordy, and I'd agree that not
all the detail is too choice. I just wouldn't dismiss it entirely as
it does project a record of a consciousness in motion. It has a
certain speed, and it bites itself, reflexively, it is a rather
bruised by the world awareness.
It has an openness to the reader, which is definitely preferable to
the trap waiting to spring feel of some, or the nullities of others.
Best
Dave
2008/5/7 Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>:
> Too many words, and not especially cunningly-chosen ones either. That
> line of Badiou's about how poetry subtracts itself from the language
> of everyday reportage*? This doesn't.
>
> Dominic
>
> * Which I think Fred's waking nightmares do quite as much as the sorts
> of things - Celan, Pessoa - Badiou publicly admires**.
>
> ** He also has a thing for St-John Perse, strangely enough.
>
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