Hi cris,
Hope you mean good stuff and and not god stuff. Yes, I take on board
what you say regarding the US and all the more recent developments.
What I was talking about was an important turn and tendency in the
past - we are still, especially here in UK, experiencing the fall-out
from that, but I would be the first to agree that those issues are no
longer the players they were. Which is a bloody good thing. I've been
reading the American Hybrid thing too - some great stuff in there.
Can't get into this too much now - too busy and I'm not going to be
around for the rest of the week.
Cheers
Tim
On 7 Mar 2010, at 22:52, cris cheek wrote:
> god stuff Tim,
>
>
> i have to say though that the same is not quite so true in the US. I
> cannot speak for Australia and other dominantly English-speaking
> regions. But now i am beginning to understand some things about the
> US, one of the reasons that i took the opportunity to move t/here. I
> cannot speak for DS Marriott, but i suspect that he finds more
> contact and network here too.
>
> LKJ, for example. Not as much of interest to me though as Kamau
> Brathwaite. Then there is Nathaniel Mackay, Tyrone WIlliams,
> Harryette Mullen, Tracie Morris, Renee Gladman, the whole Cave Canem
> initiative including now the fabulous Black Took Collective (3
> person live writing collaborations by Dawn Lundy-Martin, Ronaldo
> Wilson and Duriel Harris), Lorenzo Thomas, Will Alexander, CS
> Giscombe, Julie Patton . . . there are serious critic-poets such as
> Aldon Nielson working and publishing scholarship to support and
> advocate on behalf of such work(s). I'm only mentioning a
> smattering. Many of these poets are about as out there formally and
> content-wise as it gets right now.
>
> The same can be said of Asian north - American poets (Walter Lew's
> excellent "Premonitions" anthology gives a glimpse of that circa
> 1995) and Latina/o poets (extraordinary bodies of work by Edwin
> Torres, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Rodrigo Toscano . . .).
>
>
> To whit i was just chatting with Keith Tuma and Cathy Wagner a
> couple of days ago during Lee Ann Brown's week-long visit here about
> the claim made by Cole Swenson in the new anthology from the
> University of California "American Hybrid" (publishers of Mark
> Weiss's important recent bilingual anthology "The Whole Island: six
> decades of Cuban Poetry" and Dennis Tedlock's completely mind
> blowing "2000 Years of Mayan Literature . . . one of the more
> beautiful books one might ever see in print just out) . . . that
> poets such as Fanny Howe and Rae Armantrout represent a nominal
> center in poetry here these days . . perhaps too extravagant (a
> little) but with evidence mounting.
>
> Which begs the question . . . of signifying on traditions and
> resistances and fresh explorations / moves . .
>
>
>
> xxx
>
>
> cris
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