Hi everybody, as Dr. Nick from The Simpsons would say. Just rejoined the
list yesterday after a lengthy break.
Good to hear mention of Harriet Zinne's poems - it sent me back to
Entropisms, which resonates anew as I just got hold of Stein's 'Tender
Buttons' last week - some of the American heritage becomes clearer for this
limey reader.
A question / reservation to raise about Finnegan's words on Jorie Graham's
role at Iowa. Did you do the MFA yourself, Finnegan? did anyone else here?
because I'd be interested to know what people think about langpo techniques
being 'adapted' to mainstream poetics. I seem to remember something like
this being discussed _somewhere_ a while back and someone told a story
about Lyn Hejinian getting quite upset at langpo techniques being co-opted,
saying something like 'language poetry isn't a _style_.' What do people
think about this? Can you _responsibly_ adapt the techniques of a school
without engaging with the political and social implications of the poetic
as a way of life, as a way of having poetry as part of a living continuum
rather than as a professionalised, specialised activity? if not, is there
an argument for abandoning poetry writing programs in favour of programs
that actively encourage people to develope wider notions of poetics and
approach?
best wishes,
Malcolm
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