Dave, regarding the below and another of your mentions of 'bourgeois'
writers a few weeks back. Is this a similar take to my reading and
interpretation of some of the newer poetry? Some time back, regarding
some of the work coming out of America, I was struck by the overriding
aesthetic notion of the radical and a distancing of the work from real
sociological radicalism that should always lay at the root of
innovation. To my mind that tendency has increased enormously over the
past 10 years. It has been helped along by the increasing symbiotic
relationship between avant poetry and academia and a certain notion of
the postmodern that depoliticized so much activity. Young poets, very
well educated and professionally orientated meet aging poets who have
grown more cynical and tired - a perfect match with which to play with
bourgeois values in the safety of the page, or computer screen etc.
Cheers
Tim A.
On 27 Sep 2009, at 05:57, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> My, Kent's come on. I used to know him before he became a famous
> bourgeois
> writer,
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