Doug,
I guess I was refering to an academic or poetics mainstream. I know
that the poetic process is something poets like this are confronting.
tom
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: biographical poetry
> >Doug,
> >
> > I am admittedly 'academically-deprived' but I'm always puzzled by
the
> >mainstream's seeming ignorance of these issues even though they have been
a
> >part of langpo for many years and 'experimental' writing for even longer.
> >
> tom
>
> depends on what you think 'the mainstream' is I guess. Here in Canada, at
> least in parts of it (I tend to say out West, as I teach here, some people
> who thinnk that way teach in Manitoba, George Bowering & others
> teach/taught in Vancouver BC), these have been the issues we have taken up
> in the light of the kind of poetry I was pointing to in the earlier post.
> You can't read, fro example, Robert Kroetsch' wonderful Field Notes, its
> many separate long poems collected together, without confronting them. Or
> any of the other long poems about specific historical figures I
mentioned...
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
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