Why not be specific and give examples of the poets/poetry you're
talking about, Tim. Then we can establish common ground and also a
context for determining its significance.
Mairead
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:56:55 -0800 (PST), [log in to unmask]
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Anny:
> >"... when you talk of North American poetry. The topic is too vast... it is
> like talking of a couple (2 Europe's) of European poetry and including
> Russia maybe also with some other country added. It escapes all references"<
>
> Anny, I said that, 'one of the things that is coming through in North
> American poetry now is a kind of stylised reflexivity that is claustrophobic
> and pompous', and that is all, by which i mean most of it is coming out of
> the US and perhaps a smidgen from Canada - 'one of the things' ok? - 'one of
> the things'. And that is where it is coming from - not Mexico, not China,
> not Africa, not Japan, not Egypt, not Europe and not even old Britannia. So
> this has got nothing to do with the range and variety of poetry in the
> current US - i know all about that range - i know that the US is different
> countries within the one border. This work I am talking about comes through
> on strands of the avant postLanguage circuit but I do not think it is
> confined to any particular area, east or west or whatever - if it has a home
> then such a place seems to be sophisticated urban with a university
> background. And before anyone jumps down my throat I am not saying that all
> avant postLanguage poetry coming out of a sophisticated urban university
> background is like that - many poetries come out of that and some of them
> are excellent. I am just trying to identify this particular strand and find
> out why it is happening. Is there nobody else out there who has noticed it?
>
>
> Tim A.
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