This is rather fine. The guesses closely emulate randomness. What's really
significant to my mind is that many in this group of experienced and
accomplished poets are quite ready to consider whether certain of these quotes
from some of today's most respected poets are in fact parodies. I really
should dash off a bunch of this junk and send it to the "p-word" journal. My
reputation would be made.
Incidentally I think the responses to the phrase "most prestigious journal"
have diverged into a discussion of which journal is best. But that's a matter
of opinion, whereas the prestigiousness of an American literary or scholarly
journal is a matter of socially determined fact. Which journal name on your
publications list would most increase your chances of getting a teaching job
in a good English department? I suppose there can be some controversy about
that, but surely the list of contenders is very short.
People may expect a solution to the mystery of which quotes are genuine to be
forthcoming, but what fun would that be? Besides, I'd rather leave my puzzle
in the archive without solution, to maximize the beguilement of any future
literary net surfers who have nothing better to do with their time than read
old pect messages. However, those who want to track down the answers for
themselves are referred to
http://www.poetrymagazine.org/issue_archives.html
which will lead to other pages where all will be revealed, including exactly
how careless my quoting has been.
Incidentally, due to the blurriness of my monitor font I read the whole
conversation about Lawrence Upton's work thinking that he was saying that his
poetry included significant elements of porno. It was only just now that I
realized the term in question is pomo, for post-modernism. I suppose I should
now go back and reread it all, but I don't think I'd find it as interesting
this time.
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