My point was about the very public recognition of a book of "difficult"
poetry.
Rain Taxi is not, alas, the big, uncloistered world, any more than are
academic journals. The NYTimes, whatever its lingo, notices almost no
poetry. The NY Review of Books has Helen Vendler's taste.
But things are probably worse in Australia.
Mark
At 09:20 AM 9/9/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Mark Weiss wrote:
>
>> Congratulations on getting some attention in the big world. What someone
>> wrote about the quality of litcrit in the Australian press goes double for
>> the US. Hard to imagine the NYTimes taking on anything as interesting.
>
> I find this an amazing statement and don't think it's true at all. What
>many Australian writers (on this list and more generally) complain of is
>such a profound lack of critical culture as to preclude even a _vocabulary_
>of critique, while the U.S. seems if anything overendowed with it, maybe as
>a result of the diffusion of theory from the academy into a wide range of
>critical venues from the NY TIMES, say, to RAIN TAXI (say).
>
>Candice
>
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