My Trade Is Mystery by Carl Phillips

Author:Carl Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2022-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

And yet, it seems fair enough—and more to the point, beyond my control—if a reader brings their own concerns and lenses of experience to a poem and comes away with a reading different from, and more politically charged than, the one we’d intended. Fair enough, if the reading is extrapolated ultimately from what the poem itself provides. The dog’s whiteness and femaleness are facts. Less so, the speaker’s race or, for that matter, gender, since neither is specified in the poem. In a sense, then, a reader’s experience is the catalyst for reader response, and that response can be the catalyst for the politicization of a poem that was, otherwise, merely being itself. Again, fair enough. Though vaguely troubling.

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