[New-Poetry] Heidegger and poetry

[jfq at myuw.net]

i was just going to respond and say that I didn't know Heaney Simic and Collins were all that different from eachother. but you have a point as well.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, David Bircumshaw wrote:

>> the more widely you read, in fact, the clearer it becomes that our poetry 
>> has a distinctive metaphysics, a set of principles or intuitions held in 
>> common by poets as different as Seamus Heaney, Charles Simic, and Billy 
>> Collins.
> I'm quite tickled by the notion of Seamus Heaney's muddy boots and Billy 
> Collins' throwaway last cigarettes in company with Heidegger and metaphysics. 
> Perhaps you could stretch a case for Simic, but it would have to be a pretty 
> long-necked stretch.
>
> Now if every poet was Celan I guess at least a case for a poetry of absent 
> metaphysics could be mounted, and of ambiguous meetings with Heidegger and a 
> Metaphysics of No-Metaphysics in a Teutonic wood, but otherwise I'd be prone to 
> say that ours is predominantly an age of the poets of a consumer society, 
> indeed, of consumerist poetry, snacking compulsively on its junk.
>
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