poetry of poetry

is some sort of reflexive text that spirals in upon itself, but one that opens outwards upon the most basic traits of its time and place.

As ‘Homecoming’ shows us, by ‘poetry of poetry’ is not meant some sort of reflexive text that spirals in upon itself, but one that opens outwards upon the most basic traits of its time and place – disenchantment and the need for the ‘sacred’ in Hölderlin’s sophisticated sense of the word. ‘Poetry of poetry’ is the opposite of an arid kind of navel gazing.

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poetry of poetry