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Hi Chris .
"...the only way to keep the best writing in circulation , or to make the best poetry popular is by drastic separation of the best from a great mass of writing that has been long considered of value ... "
/ E. P. - ABC of Reading/
Dont you think Chris that we are right now in a very especial ,just peculiar situation when all the greatest writers of XX century are dead and all the greatest writers of XXI century are not born yet ? I have a strange impression it is the true . Looking in the past I really can find books which are still actual , written by people I consider a man of genius , but presently when XX cent . is coming to an end - it looks that what has remained for us - it is only sweeping and cleening up the shelves . Preparing new shelves for incoming poets and writers , deciding who was the best , who was overrated and so on .
I think you taste in the area of literature is similar to my own . That can be true in the area of english language .
In my own language I simply have nothing valuable to read at present .
Which dosen't means nothing valuable was printed for the past 20 years . I like for example books by Jan Drzezdzon / his last name sounds like "gegon"/ - a kaschubian writer , who has written in Polish quite a number of books , using the logic of dreams . For me that was the real "martial low" prose based on the idea of "internal emigration " and northern tradition of tales . But there is only a small amount of critics and readers who know him , he practically passed his time too . The best poet of XX cent. in Poland was for me Rafal Wojaczek - an underground writer from Wroclaw/Breslau . He was the most geman-like polish poet in our history . / He was silesian / . The main point of his writing it is enormously powerful language. He commited suicide at the age of 26 and certainly he cannot to be compared to E. P . But his potential was giant .
Germans dont pay attention on writers who use polish , similary for Poles - a silesian or kaschubian writer is "almost German" .
But I dont know better writers in middleeurope for the past 50 years .
Where is a common point with E. P. writing ? Probably nowhere , but "Pisan Cantos " by E. Pound and " Anderes Marchen " / I give a german title / by R. Wojaczek are my No 1 & No 2 books of poetry for XX cent .
I would like to see in the coming century more noneuropian writers on the top . I think that XX cent. is generally saying - very promising for you .
But it is right now Europes autumn - not spring , summer and not yet - a winter .So for the serious competition you will have to search somewhere here - Western Europian nations are in my opinion very clearly artistically exhausted .
Have you read anything valuable written by French writer recently? I tried , and I almost died because of boredom .
All the best . Pawel
Cracow 19.07.98
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