[New-Poetry] art and politics?

[Alexander Dickow]

Skip (and Suzanne!),
I like your response to the "exclusion clause". A
friend and poet once said to me, "l'art n'est pas un
domaine" (art is not a "domain", ie, with clearly
defined borders -- or, with borders at all). Possibly
unrealistic, but I think it's a nice working
hypothesis at least to suppose that art/poetry have
the potential to deal with any/all dimensions of human
experience. Including, very much so, the moral and
political. 
But, I must add, Bob's criticism of the "children in
China" argument, which I would refer to as the "bad
conscience clause" (see Behrle's recent remarks abt
academics on Lucipo!), I happen to agree with quite
strongly. Though maybe in different terms....
Amicalement,
Alex  

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