re-jig with more authority re: RD/DL &c

as I was saying, __here__ Marjorie Perloff obviously says much better, for example:

But from our perspective a quarter-century after the Vietnam War, the question is not whether Duncan was too cruel to Levertov, whether his authoritative pronunciamentos may or may not have been sexist, or even whether he was unfair to specific passages in her poems. Rather, the interest the correspondence raises is in the larger issue of the poetry/politics debate–a debate very much with us today in the guise of the so-called Culture Wars. Is what seems like a one-dimensional and simplistic lyric outburst against injustice or racism to be praised because its author is a member of a minority group and hence not to be subjected to the literary norms of the dominant race and class? Is every poem about AIDS ipso facto moving and worthy? Is there a taboo against offering any sort of critique of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club or bell hooks’s vituperative essays attacking the black middle class? Or, for that matter, is there an unstated taboo against one Language poet actually criticizing the work of another?

Read more: http://marjorieperloff.com/stein-duchamp-picasso/duncan-levertov-letters/#ixzz3SacccPR4

with no connection far as I can tell, I want to re-promote this blog entry from 2009:love, urination, rape