Yes I read Ron's comments with some sense of them missing the point
entirely (& he so often hits it; but not here). I not only am grateful
for the international range of the 2 Millennium volumes, but have found
they offer young writers (my students, for example) such an opening to
possibility as had not really existed before.
So, fully agree Mark.
Doug
On 29-May-05, at 4:11 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> Well-said. It's hard to imagine (on Ron's part) a more complete
> misunderstanding of your anthology.
>
> I had my own argument with some of the the selections--a few it seemed
> to
> me notable omissions, and a few I wouldn't have let in (there'd have
> been
> fewer Language poets, for one). But that would be true of any anthology
> worth having. Anthologies are statements, and as such their function
> is in
> part to invite hopefully creative disagreement. My objections were
> overwhelmed by sheer gratitude for the wealth of discoveries contained
> in
> this one and the repositioning--the internationalization--of the world
> in
> which I write.
>
> Mark
>
>
> At 05:41 PM 5/29/2005, you wrote:
>> On Nomadics blog
>>
>> http://pjoris.blogspot.com/
>>
>> a response by Jerome Rothenberg & Pierre Joris to
>>
>> Silliman's take on Millenium 2
>>
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