> for that she deserves the accolades of Helen Vendler, a critic of the Old
School
I don't know a lot about Helen Vendler, nor the age of her bricks, as in
school, but I do know that I once saw an anthology for Faber or Oxford that
she once did, and it was like a roll-call of zero taste, how to project if
you don't give a toss about poetry but what matters to you is accreditation.
Power-plays and poetry, what a joke of a combination.
Best
Dave
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From: "Henry" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: JG (my father's initials)
> Someone could write an essay about Jorie Graham as the anti-type of
> Emily Dickinson. An anti-type must have some affinity with the type:
> JG & ED were/are children of privilege. But for JG it's the privilege
> of a New Rome whereas for ED it was the privilege of a province of a
> new Greece.
>
> Romans absorb/co-opt the barbarians; hence the Iowa Program's kenosis/
> feelers extended toward Language Poetry (if it's not a style, what is it,
> Mark? A religion? A sect of Objectivism? Stylized populism - ie.
> another anti-type, Lorine Niedecker?)
>
> Graham reads like bombast to me. But it's better bombast than anyone
> else has produced in the Creative Writing Programs industry - for that
> she deserves the accolades of Helen Vendler, a critic of the Old School.
> (Where have you gone, Blackmur Dimaggio...)
>
> Henry
>
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