In the eye of the beholder, I guess. But at the very least, nobody _should_ have been in the anthology--it wasn't a reward for merit. It was a polemic statement, and Berryman was clearly identified with the confessionalists. Distinctions, of course, tend to get lost over time and the past begins to seem homogeneous.
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>Subject: Flight from Meaning
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>Gesture and allusion "mean." Allusion, esp. deep allusion as in
>Duncan's use of it and before, doesn't seem to be so popular these
>days.
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>Berryman should have been in the Allen anthology--in fact some of the
>"Dream Songs" are more innovative in terms of Martians voices and the
>furniture in the room--than Spicer's books, and definitely more
>innovative than Olson and Creeley (whose gesture--Creeley's--often
>seems to be that of a failed, Jr. Berryman.)
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