I don';t know enough about the UK scene to comment. I also don't know what her motives is--it might just be ignorance. If she's talking about the Kenny Goldsmith/Vanessa Place end of things, there are very few poets of any description in it.
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>Subject: Re: "Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde" by Cathy Park Hong
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>Are you saying that there are black poets who are “avantgarde” and that she is just limiting the term’s definition to exclude these poets as being “avant-garde”? If so, it might be true of the US but what about the UK, which has a much smaller avant-garde. How many black poets are there in that scene—however you want to define the term “avantgarde”?
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>Again, it depends what one means by the avant garde.
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