>And isn't a lot of the writing by any group of poets vapid and weak?
Oh, absolutely, and there IS a lot of broken down prose out there, but to
dismiss such (I'll say it) masters as, to name just a few, Creeley, Duncan,
Olson, CD Wright, Tom Raworth, Robert Adamson, John Tranter, Margaret
Avison, Phyllis Webb, bpNichol, Michael Palmer, Daphne Marlatt, Ronald
Johnson, and I'm naming only writers in english from the 2nd half od the
20th century (& not the many master in langauges other than english as has
already been pointed out) -- which is what that article did -- is
transcendentally silly...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Beauty's whatever
makes the adrenalin run.
John Newlove
|