I sort of follow you on this, Jon, but in what way do all these poems
insist that readers (especially writer-readers) must follow their
'rules'; & are the 'rules' really rules? As a fairly eclectic reader,
despite my own writerly approaches, I'm not sure I 'see' poems in
quite that way...(at any rate, I seem to be a poor learner).
Doug
On 5-Apr-09, at 4:31 PM, Jon Corelis 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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