[New-Poetry] obscurities

[Alexander Dickow]

Very nice, Jim. A nice antidote to the usual "word
soup" pronouncements.
For the record I've been becoming more and more wary
of this old take on the cubists as representing a
number of simultaneous perspectives. I've even seen it
in Barthes. It's everywhere, and it's just about the
only thing anyone seems to say about cubism anymore. A
shame, isn't it? Or maybe I missed a good book on the
subject or something.
Accordingly or on a somehow related note, I might add
to Jim's list poems that "seem" clear, but then you
find out -- by discovering some allusion or some
ambiguity -- that they are, in fact, complicated
and/or "obscure".
Looking forward to the Brooklyn Book Fair....
Amicalement,
Alex

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  les mots! ah quel désert à la fin
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