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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0283 A Poet Condescends</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It has been brought to my notice<br>that a review by you of<br>my latest book of writings<br>(the term ‘poem’ suggests<br>false expectations and is not therefore<br>used by me) claims that, I quote, <br>‘this poetry is so obscure that<br>I reckon it’s a hoax’…</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Your comment is truer than<br>you yourself would appreciate.<br>My writing is indeed a hoax<br>in terms of your level of<br>understanding. I do not seek<br>easy paths to meaning, nor<br>the standard readymade language of the<br>avant-garde. So what I have<br>worked though, you have not, <br>and therefore, your understanding<br>however partial would be, in your<br>terms, a hoax.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Indeed, were you to write <br>an identical ‘poem’ to my writing, <br>it would indeed be a hoax –<br>it would not be the revisioning<br>of the cosmos, the semantic discourse<br>with language and communication itself, <br>the thoughtful and reasoned displacement<br>of prepositions and their too-long<br>accepted usage, the deep rejection of<br>all parameters of lazy thinking about<br>the imagined ‘purpose’ of poetry, <br>the study of Chinese orthography as preferred signifier, <br>in short, the ‘depth’ and ‘breadth’ –<br>although I of course reject the<br>accepted implications of those<br>out-dated metaphors for the<br>neurological Cartesian – which, in short, <br>‘I’ as presented in my writing<br>have voyaged. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">However, in<br>the spirit of charity, I wish you well<br>in the deeper study of my writings, <br>and your ‘poetry’ magazine<br>should it continue its somewhat<br>faltering publication.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Besides, I’m a widely published<br>writer so yah boo sucks.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460744" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>(Palinode to the above: everyone has the right to write obscure poetry...I'm unfairly attributing to the poet the attitude of those who put themselves on a pedestal and 'explain' why they're a genius...) (Though of course...)</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a></strong></div>

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