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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:44:07 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Fredrik Hertzberg LIT <fhertzbe-AT-ra.abo.fi>
Subject: Re: PLC: Poetry, prose, fiction as meaningful


On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Chris Jones wrote:

> shows some sense of diverging questions or performance poetry? I am
> not sure the distinction you make can be maintained. Both the novel
> and poetry appear to  ask questions and make problems. To question is
> to problematise, as I understand it.

This is my feeling too. Aren't the truths of poems, as well as novels, 
interactive events and not simply "revelations" that are communicated in 
any sort of pure, noise-free (language-free) way? Laura Riding Jackson 
would be an interseting case as regs. these issues. Gave up poetry 
because it was too seductive, too fluent and well-spoken to reveal truth, 
which is always a function of our differences and imperfection. Well, not 
all poetry is fluent and well-spoken...
Fred  


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