The philosophical poem is not a mini-genre dear Andrew, it is the Book of Job, it is the prophets and their theodicy, it is the Homertic hymns, and it is the Hindu hymns, it is the red sl;ayer and the expansions of Whitman, it is the constant darkening inside Dickinsons burglar banker father God, it is the Stevens shaking the Sorbonne, it is the Wasteland and not adolescxent, it is heteronymic in Pessoa and dooms us to true hope and prahere without hope. Lu retius and Whitmans dalliance of the eagles. The Skaters where Ashbery gives us the most heartbreaking dolls within dolls. Jasper Johns and the foirades of Beckett. Borges and the Aleph, To sum up: There is no great poetry without philosophy. It is not teaching philosophy and it is not ending up in the quarterlies. Wittgenstein, the poet. Franz Kafka, the mystic anti-mystic. Proust the Jew. Proust the poet. God eists as a philosophical poet. Poems of God, poems of man, poems of poetry, poems of critique.There is no escape from it: the philosophical poem.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 15:50:44 +0000
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