[New-Poetry] Does Poetry Have A Social Function?

[Joseph Duemer]

It's social function, apparently, is to get us to ask if it has a social
function.


On 1/2/07, JforJames at aol.com <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  http://poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0107/comment_178919.html
>
> Someone took a pot shot at Christopher Wiman recently, but I have
> to say reading Poetry magazine has once again become a pleasure
> under his editorship. He's doing some of the things that made
> Countermeasures
> (a short lived journal out of New Mexico) so fun to read...like creating a
>
> panel discussion around a particularly knotty question.
>
> So does poetry have a social function? If so, why? If not, why
> not?
>
> Finnegan
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-- 
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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