Roger, my dear, you have a magnificent ability to make absolute
statements without justification. Poetry isn't potent, eh, well why do
people on this list and others invest immense energies in arguing
about it and issues that relate to it? Poetry, too, for all its power,
is easily brushed to one side, do I really need to justify that .. ?
Patrick, who posts poem after poem, suddenly told us, some e-mails
back : 'poetry is boring anyhow' - well, if that's what its
practitioners can come out with ...
poetry is as problematic as our selfhoods, as our subjective
reality/ies, it's an airy-fairy compulsive art, it is hard to justify,
just as we are ourselves. It is as immaterially material as the fact
of being in time.
It's both a lot of fun and a pain in the bum! As we can be, on our
good-bad always days.
Best
Dave
2008/8/31 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
> No it's not. Although, the topic in question is easily blown off
> course by non sequiturs.
>
> Roger
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:17 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 'weak', no, it's nothing of the sort. Poetry, within its own sphere,
>> is immensely potent, but it is easily brushed aside by more tangible
>> objects outside that sphere.
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "I began to warm and chill
> to objects and their fields"
> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>
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David Bircumshaw
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