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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Dead ends
> Something like Creeley's "form is never more than an extension of
> content"?
>
Yes, exactly. I have great respect for Creilly. His basic subject-matter
is his loves and his own moment-by-moment sensual experiences, and he found
a style that truthfully reflected them, and thereby also showed something of
the conditions in which his love and sensuality occurred. (In the abstract,
his range of subject-matter is comparable to, say, Robert Graves's.)
I know that all my talk of "reflection" and "adequation," my insistence on a
style/content distinction, makes any good poststructuralist's teeth hurt.
But it will be interesting to see how popular Derrida et al. will remain
under conditions of economic hardship.
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