New blog post:
“Is Steven Burt’s “New Thing” all that New?”
“I’ve just seen an article by Stephen Burt called ‘The New Thing: The
object lessons of recent American poetry’ in the Boston Review in which
he says:
‘For much of the past decade, the most imitated new American poets
were slippery, digressive, polyvocalic, creators of overlapping, colorful
fragments. Their poems were avowedly personal, although they never
retold the poets’ life stories (they did not tell …..”
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