John-
And how I trusted that the phrase "wards of anorexic patients" would have
you reaching for that mighty fly-swat, the recent NHS policy guide-lines
on treating patients with categorised eating disorders. It is reassuring
to know that feminist theory re this issue, is cost-effective when it can
be, for what better way for a theory to reccommend itself as "reasonable"
than that?
But I do think your own come-back, on this, offers a more astute
recommendation of your poetry than the lavish honey-pots of earlier
postings....
....and would place it outside the two categories identified by Peter
Riley as ("everyone knows") now operative in GB: "official" (so-called
mainstream) and "academic" poetry. (What he intends here, of course, are
its arbiters & distributors, rather than the social matrixes operative in
poetry itself, & it leaves out performance-based poetry, but never mind).
And if salesmanship (!) was the fantasy of mutual regard, yes, even then
one should still be keeping an eye on the "cost-effective" register.
For anyone requiring the lavish honey-pots of indebtedness: try what
John Cayley endorsed, Lisa Robertson's Debbie: An Epic.
with regards,
Karlien
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