crystal clear sense, I think.
On Wed, Jan 1, 2003 at 4:51 AM, Ana Olinto <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> dear stephen
> i'm a big eliot fan myself. i also love kenneth rexroth, chiefly for his
> translations from the chinese (the genious tu fu), japanese, latin and
> greek.
> i think he is the best chinese and japanese translator ever, better than
> waley and pound. he is a promissing, profeting blend of counterculture
> and erudition.
> however, i think he is a lesser ORIGINAL poet. i think it is dangerous not
> to see the more solid achievements of tse and ep. as greater (these
> two have a lot of rubish, but i'm thinking in the good poems).
> i think today we should conciliate rexroth and counterculture precisely...
> with the straight classics. all classicism pressuposes an earlier
> romanticism, from which it elaborates.
> i think mina loy is a proto-example of this conciliation, even though she
> came before the beats - boy, she was ahead of her time - and though
> others can work it out very differently.
> does anyone think what i'm saying makes sense?
> ---- ana
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]
> >
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Kenneth Fearing article
>
>
>
> Thanks, David, for the link. I, too, liked this piece on Fearing, a
> fearless as he seemed.
> It remains amazing how the post-war/Cold War critics (i.e., the New Critics
> and Southern Agrarians) in this country tossed these 30's writers off the
> cliff. Writers who were radical, members of the CP, and, no doubt, obnoxious
> and abrasive to the core in dealing with the T.S. Eliot worlds of high
> mandarin culture, conservatism, et al. Boy did Daddy strike back. No matter
> how successful many of Kenneth Rexroth's books have been with New
> Directions, he, too, forever got the critical cold nose. (Of course, Rexroth
> was openly contemptuous of that whole establishment, and that did not help
> him, either!) I actually got a call from Kenneth Fearing's son in about 1975
> - who lived in Portland - asking me if Momo's Press wanted to do a Collected
> Fearing (he was so much on the margins back then). Retrospectively I was
> stupid not to do it. But then it seemed like a huge revival project beyond
> my small press means or interest at the time.
> Now days it strikes me that there are few groups of poets willing to front
> for both their work and their politics - this David and Goliath challenge of
> the time!
>
> Stephen
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
> --- On Thu, 6/11/09, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Kenneth Fearing article
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 9:43 AM
>
> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=236900
> if of interest.
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "Nothing can be done in the face
> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
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