>To write in a postmodern
>way about certain atrocities can feel like a kind of betrayal. The
>impenetrable impersonal tone as a cop out. Mind you workshop blud-n-guts
>is not necessarily any better, often just using the suffering of others as
>insta-poetry. Silence is not really any cleaner as an alternative.
My god, if I thought these were the only alternatives open to poetry in
English I'd be booking into Gaelic classes or learning Timorese. I have
this hope, this desire, that it's possible to resist the legislative
imperatives of the father tongue, and maybe express something of the
weight and complexity and feeling of human experience. At least in
poems, if nowhere else, and maybe elsewhere as well.
But it's very difficult to write poetry.
Best
AC
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