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...make these jokes only to demonstrate what Vendler is talking about, as well as to point out, however fancifully, that writing is a kind of discourse that yearns for and implies a certain degree of reciprocity...
...Vendler describes how Herbert, through various formal inventions and the creation of unique dramatic situations—for instance, in which the speaker is placed in dialogue, with Jesus himself—is able to create a hypothetical space of intimacy with God, without the distances imposed by contemporary social life or the conventional constraints of the Catholic church...
Each of these essays suggests that the pay-off of the creation of imaginary intimacy is the opportunity to rethink, and attempt to improve, what is available in the “real” world. Vendler describes how these poets produce a kind of “Utopia, in which possible models of human relations are produced, scrutinized, revised, and consolidated...
...interview with a representative for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2004, Vendler defended the role of art and literary critics as supporters and promoters of cultural patrimony...
These poets “aim to establish in the reader’s imagination a more admirable ethics of relation, one more desirable than can be found at present on the earth,” Vendler writes in her concluding remarks. “Intimacy with the invisible is an intimacy with hope...