Joe,
You probably completely misunderstand my remark.  Being
both author of books of fiction and criticism, I think I can
distinguish between the kind of  "sense" the critic wants to
make of the work of art, and the esthetic "sense" the artist
wishes to make of the world of raw materials to produce the
work of art in the first place.  Perhaps also I misunderstand
you, but what I would argue against (and I hardly think anyone
would disagree) is the equation of unedited, "tape-recorded"
experience with art.
==Dan

At 05:22 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/20/2001 4:05:40 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > Art exists
> > not just to mirror our world, but to make sense of it.
> >
>
>I going to have more to say later on the issue of Pound and coherence, but
>the above is just nonsense.  One does not subordinate art to sense, quite the
>opposite.  The above remark is revealing in that it clearly represents one
>side of the friction between the artist and the critic.  The critic is always
>willing, or so it seems to me, to subordinate art to one thing or another at
>the drop of a hat, almost always to serve some ulterior purpose -- usually to
>prove the critic's point.
>
>joe brennan....

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