Hejinian 223: "[T]he language of public life has emerged as one of the central concerns of contemporary poetics as of contemporary politics. Public life is language's primary arena."
[true? I'd be interested to contrast or compare this against some of what there is to be found in Warner]
"Public life is not limited to civic life, the political; public life is life in the shared world, our given ongoing lived reality and the contexts that both construct and constrict it."