Meaghan once remarked (I think to the poet and art critic Ken Bolton) that she didn’t like poetry because of all the empty space on the page. A quarter of a century ago in 1992, in Ecstasy and Economics: American Essays for John Forbes, she said she was ‘a desultory reader of poetry’ and that reading poetry might induce a ‘scary cultural estrangement’.1 In the foreword, she extrapolates the ‘awkward’ place of poetry in cultural studies then as being more an American problem than an Australian one but nearly a quarter of a century later I wonder if poetry has made an individuated local spot for itself, or even if it cares to. I mean, ‘should poetry worry?’

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Meaghan Morris的生活形式

Meaghan曾经说过（我认为是对诗人和艺术评论家肯·博尔顿而言），因为页面上的所有空白，她不喜欢诗歌。四分之一个世纪前的1992年，在《迷魂药与经济学：约翰·福布斯的美国散文》中，她说她是“一个诗意的读者”，而且读书诗歌可能会引起“可怕的文化隔range”。1在序言中，她推论文化研究中诗歌的“尴尬”位置，然后再将其视为澳大利亚人的问题而不是澳大利亚人的问题，但将近四分之一世纪之后，我想知道诗歌是否已成为其自身的个性化地方，或者是否在乎。我的意思是，“诗歌应该担心吗？”