tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096739.post3062896587607311861..comments2023-11-03T06:31:07.882-04:00Comments on Cahiers de Corey: The Anti-Anti-Accessible versus David Orr, or, Poetry as PerversionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06846875103765617419noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096739.post-28299037242894858622011-04-27T21:48:47.395-04:002011-04-27T21:48:47.395-04:00Let me be literal & ecstatic
in one word: yes...Let me be literal & ecstatic <br />in one word: yes!tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01834483159361470889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096739.post-29694237663566386782011-04-25T16:28:10.604-04:002011-04-25T16:28:10.604-04:00I think the really good poems have an unparaphrasa...I think the really good poems have an unparaphrasable intelligibility, a built-in sense. You don't understand them; they understand you : at least that's the feeling you have, reading them. You say "that's right!" when you read them - even when you don't understand them entirely. They have layers, maybe ("codes") - but the codes are optional, for those who seek.<br /><br />I would say a good poem has this kind of integrity which transcends the clear/obscure, easy/difficult dichotomy.Henry Gouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com