Peter wrote:
> How does Bowering deal with this?
I ask George about this whole subject in the interview we did for Jacket 33.
One of my questions begins:
'As I think you know I've got no quarrel with your take on the arrogance of
empire or really with "USAmerican," except that I always find myself
involuntarily cycling through all the poems it would have ruined if
USAmericans had adopted it earlier: "The pure products of USAmerica / go
crazy," "I hear USAmerica singing, the varied carols I hear," "Let USAmerica
be USAmerica again." It's so corporate - which is very appropriate on one
level, but as language it curls my ear.'
To read his answers:
http://jacketmagazine.com/33/loden-bowering-iv.shtml
Rachel Loden
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Cudmore
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 8:58 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: America's Guardian Myths
>
> The thing is not to find convenient terms of abuse, but
> simply a precise yet
> concise way of speaking. 'American' fits the bill for
> concision, but not for
> precision.
>
> How does Bowering deal with this?
>
> P
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> > Sent: 10 September 2007 16:05
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: America's Guardian Myths
> >
> > That's precisely why I try to remember to follow our
> ex-Poet Laureate
> > when it's called for. But of course we are all Norteamericanos....
> >
> > Doug
> > On 8-Sep-07, at 9:28 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > Just don't let George Bowering catch you
> > > calling USAmericans Americans.
> > Douglas Barbour
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> >
> > Someone to talk to, for God's sake, some-
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> >
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