I'm still waiting to learn which other category is your "Live End", though I suspect it must
be "the classics in paraphrase." As for "lectures which are no use to anybody", I've
argued that the "lecture-poems" of Gertrude Stein, Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, and
David Antin have generated considerable performative activity in both literature and the
other arts. One choice example which comes to mind would be the verbal interplay
amongst George Quasha, Charles Stein, and Gary Hill, both in videotape and in print,
which no aesthetic historian would term "language poetry".
Barry Alpert
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:31:09 -0500, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Though it may seem a long way from these language (I use the term in a
>broad sense) poets to the various political and mainstream academic
>schools, all three of these major current English language poetry
>categories have in common that they produce poems with the implicit
>preface, "Here is how you should write poetry." In other words, they
>are lectures which are of no use to anybody. I must cede that at
>least the language school's poems don't add the implicit afterword of
>current political poems -- "And if you criticize that, you are a
>clod," --- or of the academic ones -- "Can I have tenure now?"
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