Here you go--thanks, Henry.
on 8/3/01 10:26 AM, Henry at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I'm sorry if I offend with my reductive sociology of Jorie Graham. I
> suppose my comments could be reduced to: badmouthing. This is the
> twilight of list discussion, where assertions are blurted without
> evidence, a form of gossip.
>
> Here are a few poems of hers I found on the web:
>
> www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmlD=59
>
> www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/00_01/graham.html
>
> www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/96_97/grapal.html
>
> After looking at these poems, I still think there's a tendency to
> bombast, which intrudes in the gap between some initial,
> specific imagery (minnows, an Italian painting, water flowing, etc)
> and the wide, grandiose emotive-spiritual gestures the images
> are meant to trigger. This rather huge gap between a particular image
> and a big abstract statement is smoothed over by her emphatically
> flowing syntax, but in my opinion it's not a very solid bond.
>
> best, Henry
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