Sources of poetic power
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24/06/2002
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Resumo |
How powerful are our categories? Some might see these three poets in the categories ``working-class man'', ``indigenous man'', ``educated woman''. But what does this mean? Could they not all be educated, indigenous, working-class? There are sound reasons to think in categories, but poets are implicitly against theory, since each has a peculiar source of poetic power. Even if that turns out to be gender or class or race, it will be more complex than those over-burdened words allow. Poems, like poets, resist classification and gaze back at us like imaginary animals, indifferent to zoology<br /> |
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Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
Fairfax Publishing |
Relação |
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/24/1023864544541.html |
Direitos |
2002 The Age Company Ltd |
Tipo |
Journal Article |