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Sources of poetic power

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posted on 2002-06-24, 00:00 authored by David MccooeyDavid Mccooey
How powerful are our categories? Some might see these three poets in the categories ``working-class man'', ``indigenous man'', ``educated woman''. But what does this mean? Could they not all be educated, indigenous, working-class? There are sound reasons to think in categories, but poets are implicitly against theory, since each has a peculiar source of poetic power. Even if that turns out to be gender or class or race, it will be more complex than those over-burdened words allow. Poems, like poets, resist classification and gaze back at us like imaginary animals, indifferent to zoology

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Journal

The Age

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Fairfax Publishing

Location

Melbourne, Vic.

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0312-6307

Language

eng

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M Media article

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2002 The Age Company Ltd

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