[New-Poetry] Logocentrism

[Anny Ballardini]

I had the same (up till now unsaid) reaction, how interesting and complicated are human beings.
  From: JforJames at aol.com 
  Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:40 AM


  Bob, I find it interesting that you argue that the language,
  English,  is an adequate intrument for any and all needs of expression, 
  and yet aren't you rather prone to neologisms in your critical schema?
  Why not find one or more of those adequate words rather
  than make a new one?

  One could say that poetry is only necessary because
  of the rift between what we want to say and what we can...
  Finnegan
  T.S. Eliot ("East Coker", The Four Quartets)

  Trying to use words, and every attempt
  Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
  Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
  For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
  One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
  Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
  With shabby equipment always deteriorating
  In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
  Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
  By strength and submission, has already been discovered
  Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
  To emulate—but there is no competition—
  There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
  And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
  That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
  For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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