[New-Poetry] Heidegger and poetry

[Skip Fox]

They seem fairly similar to me in the level of interest they evoke in me.
It's not nil, but it's not much. Actually Heaney is the most compelling and
Collins the least, but all three are significantly beneath my interest in
hundreds of others.

 

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I don't have any trouble discriminating between the three: on style, typical
subject or approach. But then I read a lot. And, David, how can poetry be
consumerist when almost everyone agrees it's hard to it give away? Even
poets like this unlikely triumverate could only be said to 'sell well' by
'poetry standards'.
Finnegan


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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.

> 
> -- > 
> David Bircumshaw 
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