R: Re: [New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[anny.ballardini at tin.it]

as if anyone could live without doubts or without being uncertain,

Da: bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net
Data: 2-lug-2007 4.59 AM


  " . . . one 
of poetry's chief aims is to illumine the walls of mystery, the 
inscrutable, the unsayable.  I think poetry ought to be taught not as 
an engine of meaning but as an opportunity to learn to live in doubt 
and uncertainty, as a means of claiming indeterminacy.  Our species is 
deeply defined by its great surges of reason, but I think it high time 
we return to elemental awe and wonder."

  --Major Jackson, "Does 
Poetry Have a Social Function," Poetry, January 2007


  Jeff Newberry

  As if anyone could live in doubt and uncertainty.  Not that utter 
certainty, if possible, wouldn't be worse.

  --Bob 
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