At 10:52 AM 7/16/00 -0700, Scott Hamilton wrote:
>decontextualised. I see it often in the poets in NZ -
>Wystan Curnow, who posts his heartfelt and elegant
>post-structuralist fallacies here regularly,is a
>classic example - who are under the spell of the
>Language group, but do not understand the purpose of
>the poetics built by that group. They take the 'forms'
>- the empty shells - of the work of people like
>Andrews and Silliman, but are blind to the
>sociological and political views that underpin them,
>justify them. What you end up with is a whole lotta
>sub-neo-Symbolist sludge, which makes pretty, prettily
>vague poems out of forms designed to bite.
I have been hearing claims like this for the longest time, but have never
seen, as an actual example, anyone "bitten" but a language-designed *form.*
I would be grateful to anyone who refereed to an actual bite or at any rate
a demonstration of the jaws and teeth. I have also heard talk of such form
being "liberating" in some socio-political sense, but am yet to see anyone
liberated from anything whatsoever by this sort of thing.
Examples, please!
Philip
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