Not allowed access, Barry, but I believe you....
I guess we just have to let them be, with their poetry, while we read
ours (which we know covers a wider ground, & is much more exciting,
compelling, engaging, demanding, etc.)....
Doug
On 8-May-08, at 1:26 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> In my essay "Post-Modern Oral Poetry: Buckminster Fuller, John Cage,
> and David Antin", I point to
> extrapolations from the continuous U.S. oral tradition unheard by
> twentieth century republican
> country-club society: the blues and dada, not to mention Rexroth,
> Patchen, & the Beats.
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