Imagination

[Katha Pollitt <kpollitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles, I haven't read Zizek, but I think Wallace Stevens DEFINITELY
has a better imagination than I do! He wrote many volumes of wonderful
poetry that have shaped the course of American literature, I only one
volume of far less wonderful poetry.
  but I don't think doug was saying that Wallace stevens was a political
thinker, whose poems could be the text of a revolutionary movement and
for whom marx should be set aside. "Sad men made angels of the sun"
isn't so far from marx's view of religion as "heart of a heartless
world."  The question in both cases is whether religion speaks to
something deeper in the psyche than socio-economic-political misery. I
think i would say ORGANIZED religion no, mystical speculation yes.