returning to the poetry of poetry
RETURNING TO THE POETRY OF POETRY Leave the shadows cast by Emily and Walt. Walk in rain shine. The mischief-begotten claim "Even among the most barbarous and simple Indians where no writing is, yet have they their poets, who make and sing songs, which they call areytos , both of their ancestors' deeds and praises of their gods ---- a sufficient probability that, if ever learning come among them, it must be by having their hard dull wits softened and sharpened with the sweet delights of poetry" Philip Sidney, Apology for Poetry (1595) is obdurate. Imperial capitalism came, delivering abuse of wit and quicksand of alien poesy. The publication of Erdrich, Heid E., ed. New Poets of Native Nations . Minneapolis: ...