[New-Poetry] Heidegger and poetry

[jforjames at aol.com]

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.?
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, David Bircumshaw wrote:?
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>> 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.?
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> 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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