"The personal is political,&qu...

"The personal is political," went a much-quot and often misused, slogan of the 1970 For more than fifteen years, Peter Dale Scott's ongoing epic metrical composition has documented, with a rare open-mindedness and curiosity, the actual intersections between his life as a political activist and his other lives - religious, aesthetic, familial, erotic. A third body excerpted here, is now nearing completion. The view of politics itself has darkened a pious deal, over the years. The conspiracy hunting-horse often seems lost in a Pynchonesque labyrinth, where he cannot acknowledge the endless chain ...