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Re: A sorry state
Curragh makes a similar point to mine, only better and more concisely, and provokes a longer, more confused reply from jsgilm. One that attempts to refute the charge of jingoistic irrelevance with a fresh dose of, er, jingoistic irrelevance. According to which, literary recognition is but ''a sort of phantom strength'', a poor surrogate for ...
Posted to Culturebox by Nordolf on October 9, 2008
Moderated criticism & an alternative
I think Pinsky was trying to be funny. People who already knew the answers to the questions might have appreciated the humor, but I can understand how his flippancy might have annoyed others. A person who is unused to reading poetry would not find simply reading those poems helpful at all. I think sme sort of analysis was deifnitely in order, but ...
Posted to Culturebox by amourpropre on April 17, 2008