[New-Poetry] William Blake's America, 2010

[Mark Weiss]

The extent of human misery is certainly less, but 
its depth is about the same, even in New York. 
Hell, we even have slavery in some quarters.

At 02:14 PM 11/5/2010, you wrote:
>Actually, I would say that there are far more 
>similarities between Blake's London and America 
>than between New-Po and an people's republic, 
>starting with the fact that both London and 
>America are geo-political entities. Beyond that, 
>it doesn't seem to me to be such a stretch to 
>imagine contemporary America caught in 
>mind-forg'd manacles. You, yourself, see the the 
>contemporary poetry establishment caught in mind-forg'd manacles.
>
>On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Bob Grumman 
><<mailto:bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
>On 11/5/2010 10:57 AM, Tad Richards wrote:
>>
>>A simile is supposed to suggest parallels, not 
>>exact duplication. I have no idea as to the 
>>happiness of members of people's republics.
>Tad, I'll just say that New-Poetry is a hundred 
>times more like any people's republic you want 
>to name than America is like Blake's London--not 
>that I really think New-Poetry is a hotbed of rabid communist-sympathizers.
>
>--Bob
>
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