Interesting comment, Stephen.
I have been responding to many things on petc, but apparently my
computer was in the midst of a breakdown as none appeared there, nor my
cries for help to you & Sharon.
I enjoyed your pieces on you blog, too, but cant recall exactly what I
said (here I am on my lap top, which I usually dont use; but now i must
take my other computer in to have the hard drive fixed).
Anyway, my silence was not planned.... Enjoyed the snaps, too, even
sent a little one (for the moment lost on that other damaged thing).
Doug
On 11-Jun-09, at 12:25 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> 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
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>
Douglas Barbour
Latest book: Continuations, with Sheila E, Murphy
(University of Alberta Press 2006)
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or is that the flesh-made word?
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