[New-Poetry] Introduction

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/9/2006 11:05:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
hawkbrwn at msn.com writes:

And I  am there attending a doctoral program in philosophy at McGill 
University.  I’ll admit it is a struggle to balance my poet life with my philosophy  
life but I venture on trying.  It’s been a pleasure reading the various  
discussions happening here at New Poetry, and I appreciate the poems that have  
recently been posted as well.  It’s always a pleasure to be reminded of  the many 
many ways it is possible to write a poem.



Hi Elaine, and welcome. There is, of course, a long history of both  
antipathy and 
admiration between poetry and philosophy or philosophy and poetry. Some  
current
philosophers taking an interest in poetry: Jan Zwicky at the Univ. of  
Vancouver
has written some wonderful things. Simon Critchley at the New School in NYC  
has
written on philosophy and Wallace Stevens. John Koethe at the Universiity  of 
WI
is both a poet and teacher of philosophy. Emily Grolholz is another  example 
at 
Penn State. Also, Vincent Colapeitro at Penn State Philosophy has written  
quite
a bit on poetry. Susan Howe has a book called Peirce-Arrow (as in Chas.  
Sanders
Peirce) and she's also written about Joshia Royce. I could go on and  on...but
I'm sure you know of some of these people. Back in Oct. of 2005 I helped  
organize
a Poetry and Philosophy Conference at the Univ. of Hartfrord. 
 
Immodestly I'll say that the poetry-philosophy nexus  is the subject of much 
of my blog:
_http://ursprache.blogspot.com/_ (http://ursprache.blogspot.com/) 
 
 
In our day, men of genius have transferred philosophy from the  intelligible 
world to the real world. Will there ever be a man to do the same  for lyrical 
poetry, to bring it down from enchanted realms to the earth we  inhabit? 
--Denis Diderot, Discours sur la poésie dramatique (1758) 
Des  homes de génie ont ramené de nos jours la philosophé due monde 
intelligible dans  le monde réel. Ne s’en trouvera-t-il point un qui rende le meme 
service a la  poésie lyrique et qui la fasse descendre, des regions enchantées, 
sur la terre  que nous habitations. 
 
Has Diderot's challenge been answered as yet?
Finnegan
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