> http://lbc.typepad.com/blog/
> http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/index/
Thanks, Alison. As you might have implied, these two blogs are about works
in prose, and they are probably good for links to discussion groups about
particular kinds of prose (Melville, for example). But my impression is
neither is for a "poetry head." They are both quite polite.
I suspect the open range aspect of the listserv form is more electric and
appropriate for tighter strung, shoot from the hip, improv (occasional
brawl) wacky (have I indulged enough cliches?) responding poets.
As suggested, reviews of new books and mags should be thrown into the mix.
Shills (unless they are really good at that) will be shot or embarrassed on
sight/site!!
Just bought today, Mayan Letters by Charles Olson (Grossman Publishers/Cape
Editions) 1968. Introduced by Robert Creeley. A sweet little, practically
palm size edition inducing the whole intimacy of the correspondence between
the two - which is really not so intimate; I mean Olson wants to stake out a
civilization (Mayan) and its origins on this American continent that still
exists and precedes the Greeks, etc., and its enveloping control of that
myth within "our" culture, "cleansing (himself) of the bias' of westernism."
(In the line of other little provactive books, says in the sixties, Mao's
Little Red Book, which was even smaller). Tho these letters have been
reprinted in New Directions Olson pose collections - if even those are still
in print - it's somehow much more compelling to have a book in its first
manifestation, intended as it was as a tool, rather than an anthological
artifact.
I wonder - as I have noticed - how many people (at least on this continent)
have put For Love or their other favorite Creeley title up on the mantle or
wherever in memoriam?
Stephen Vincent
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
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