Poetry Tip: Don't Communicate

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"(3) The poem must, as Mandelstamm stresses, speak without addressing itself to a concrete and known interlocutor; it resembles, in this respect (in a comparison Celan takes up in the Bremen address), a message or letter cast adrift in a bottle, awaiting a destined but unknown reader to come."
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-...rrida.html