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Am agreed with you, Lawrence. The language pulls it away from immediacy and seems an attempt to ennoble, mythologize and dignify what cannot be ennobled -- and, what's more important, what *shouldn't be ennobled. gabe At 01:34 AM 9/13/2002 +0100, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Helen Hagemann" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: 13 September 2002 00:56 >Subject: 9/11 by Robert Pinksy > > > >| I like this poem, > >I don't > >| He's done a fine job, 'par excellence' without sentimentality. > >I think the whole thing is sentimental; 3rd person warm glow stuff > >as to fine job, look at the tired usage > >spectacle... sick... > >I think he's echoing Blake but if he is it goes nowhere > >we adore images >is good >but it gets lost... > >lowbrow... doomed - in doomed towers - and towers again - makes it sound >like tolkien... dark in dark roots... mystic > >oh dear > >L >,