Sherry Chandler » 137, 138, 139
137, 138, 139
137. The concept that the poem “expresses” the poet, vocally or otherwise, is at one with the whole body of thought identified as Capitalist Imperialism.
138. If poetry is to be perfect, it cannot be all-knowing. If it is to be all-knowing, it cannot be perfect.
139. I began writing seriously a decade ago and was slow to learn. For years I was awkward, sloppy, given to overstatement, the sentimental image, the theatrical resolution. Yet, subtracting these, I am amazed at the elements, all formal and/or conceptual, which have remained constants. It is those who tell me who I am.
— from Ron Silliman’s The Chinese Notebook
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