Silver & Black Hole

Pages 45-4

Exile Vol. XXXVI No. 1

untitled by Nichola Gracille (Cover) Words by Kent Lambert 1 Talk by Richard Latimer 2 Storm Passing by Ben Kell 3 untitled by Ed Stanley 4 I Again Awake by Sharnon Salser 5-6 Demigods and Demons by Kent Lambert 7 untitled by Tim Loving 8 Apology by Kelly Bondurant 9-10 Guest Speaker by Ann Mierson 11 untitled by Nicalas Gracilla 12 Watching for Minnows by Kent Lambert 13 Thunderbird by Kelly Bondurant 14-16 Glendalough (St. Kevin) by Ben Kell 17-18 Untitled by Craig Bagno 19 Flying Machines In Pieces On The Ground by Kelly Bondurant 20 Tuesday, December 13, 1988 Bill & Walt\u27s Toy Shoppe by Alexander Speyer 21 Weathered Wood by Kelly Bondurant 22 Above Grey Water by Susanna Duff 23-25 untitled by Ed Stanley 26 Contributor\u27s Notes 27 Editorial decision is shared equally among the Editorial Board -

Washington University Record, February 4, 1988

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Darío, Borges, Neruda and the Ancient Quarrel between Poets and Philosophers

There is a paradox of in teaching subversive literature: university teachers are funded by society and impose on Dionysiac trances a culture of examinations and a comforting rationality. From within the safe institutional framework of the university, we constantly implement Plato's expulsion of the poets from the public arena because they arouse and confuse our minds. This analysis will explore this Nietzschean conflict in three Spanish American poets and simultaneously outline and defend the excessive way poets read other texts as they re-enact this 'ancient' quarrel between poetry and philosophy, in terms of the imperative, or social burden, of having to be responsibly 'Latin American'