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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: Dead ends
> You truly are a vile little prick.
>
> Cuckolded? What year is this, 1900?
>
Now, now. No call for that. Historical fact, despite the wording.
Happened in fall '55, time of Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco. And
Rexroth was very upset by it - so much so that he made the East Coast Beats,
whom he had previously welcomed, very uncomfortable. American cultural
history might have been very different otherwise. --- Now I think I'll bow
out of this list for a while. Months or more. Before I'm kicked out for
fomenting controversy and bad feeling (which, by the way, I didn't
deliberately do.) I'll lurk - sometimes I pick up interesting news,
recommendations - but I have backchannel relationships with the three or
four people on it I actually like. These controversies may be interesting
in themselves but for me they're pointless. "Theory" of any sort is of
little interest to me and provides no guidance for my work. Which, for me,
is the main thing. And which is better than the vast majority of either
current mainstream or academic-avant-garde poetry. And which, though I
myself will undoubtedly die unknown, will be discovered - will express and
interpret this era - when you and your insults are footnotes.
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