They are, they are (or should be, Alison), & others too, many of whom
were major influences). Why just the other day, george Bowering talked
about the impact reading Wiliams had on him, & then said HD was
perhaps the most important in many ways.
Not all of us ignore them. Phyllis Webb is certainly one of the most
important of my poetic mentors (or I should say her writing is).
Like Mina Loy, Lorine Niedecker (was) disappeared for a long time, but
is at last beginning to be seen for the major figure she is.
Etc.
In Canada, Lisa Robertson is not alone: Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré,
many others....
Doug
On 25-Apr-10, at 7:24 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Djuna Barnes anybody? Mina Loy? HD? Marianne Moore? What about,
> more recently, Joan Ratellack or Maggie O'Sullivan or Alice Notley
> etc? Aren't they too part of this conversation?
Douglas Barbour
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I was immediately set upon by two or three
critics, who hurled sophistries and
maledictions at me that were astonishing
in their dimness.
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