Wystan, I think Ron Silliman made explicit the affinity in a talk at
a conference in NY called "Marginalization of Poetry" - I don't have
the details, sorry to say. Both the NCs and the LPs cut the ground
out from under poetry-as-emotive-bombast by means of a strict notion
of language. The notions, and the practices, were very different,
but the sense of the poem as set-at-a-distance, rather than immediate,
were similar...
HG
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