Fair point, Tony.
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Well, Mackey is, or was — I think he’s retired — well ensconced in academia, as is David Marriott. Perloff’s name is trotted out because she’s the apologist, par excellence, for the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, especially Bernstein, Silliman and Watten. And that group is nothing but white. In that very rough age group (Perloff’s and the LangPo crowd’s) you’ve got Baraka (older still) and Mackey (a bit younger) but very few others, so there may well be a generational thing going on here. And the usual problem of an older generation not recognising the qualities of the next-but-one generation.
Tony
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