A recent post over at Possum Ego seems to address an idea I floated in an earlier post concerning relations as providing a productive focus for talking about poetry. Unfortunately, Dale Smith (Ol’ Possum?) uses some opaque language that annoys the crap out of me, such as: “Phronesis is mutable and undefined because it is dependent upon situations that call its wisdom into being for those moments.” We could slice and dice Aristotle to show why phonesis is not wisdom at all, but let’s not.Read More