I love it when Joseph Deumer talks like this.

Poetry & Justice:

This is probably just another set of failed notes toward an essay on poetry that will go nowhere, but I am at least going to record here a few of the bits & pieces, a few of the fragments, I've run across lately that might serve as landmarks, or road signs on the way to understanding. In any case, I'm no longer interested in poetry or theories of poetry that don't attempt--however ridiculously--to save the world. Maybe I can make a beginning toward understanding the art I've practiced more than thirty years by forgetting about poetry & thinking about language:
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