Gjertrud Schnackenberg (sp?) got a big and rightful boost
from the NYRB recently. Bloodaxe have just published a big
book of hers here which I must try and get hold of. (I
think as well as Selected it contains her latest book).
I was most impressed with her when I came across her
about fifteen years ago.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Mark Weiss wrote:
> 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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