Hi Anthony,
thanks for the info on William Glock. I knew nought about him.
What your post might imply, and correct if I'm ringing wrong,
is that EM did indeed in respects emulate Glock to an extent
of exerting a miasma of skewed taste towards certain forms of
poetic practice; thereby narrowcasting the available picture?
In other words, that a parallel to Glock's (to quote yourself),
>total hegemony of the post-Schoenberg and -Webern line to the almost total
>exclusion of contrary points of view> might be Mottram's
preference for Open Field Poetics, Concrete Poetries, Sound Texts,
Aleatoric Processes, Translations, Elegies and Lyrics, Free Verse,
Beat writers, New York School, Black Mountain circles and so forth?
(Cobbing, Neruda, Duncan, Ginsberg, Ruykeser, McClure, MacSweeney, Pickard,
Houedard, Fisher (Allen and Roy), Sorrentino, Harwood, F T Prince, Deguy,
Tzara, Finlay, Catling, Middleton, Feinstein, Padgett, Berrigan, Mathews,
Koller, Randell, Eshleman, Waldman, MacDiarmid, Levertov, Wieners,
Lauterbach, Finch, Simms, Griffiths, Clark, Joris, Saroyan, Hirschman,
Antin, Rothenberg, Tarn, Henderson, Chaloner, Redgrove, Clarke, Snyder,
Guest, Bromige, Ashberry, Williams, Rakosi, Riley, Morgan, Hyatt,
Oppenheimer, Corbiere, Codrescu, Barnett, Howell, Oppen, Crozier, Sinclair,
MacLow, James, Gibbs, McCarthy, Schwerner, Hamburger, Lopez, Hawkins,
Kelly, Ferlinghetti, Kennelly, and many others) just from skimming through
some lists of contributors, can be taken as being either broad or narrow
depending on how far one wants to stretch. But Eric was an editor. It's as
simple as that. A powerful and influential one at that. That's something to
be thankful for and a position worth enaging with and arguing over. He had
prefernces and he had a program. Whether one agrees with the program or
not, at least he was open about his intentions. I have no idea as to
whether the above list might be considered, by others to be broad or
hegemonic.
It certainly might be accused of being imbalanced in terms of gender and
cultural representations. But little wasn't then. Not that therein lies any
excuses. Eric had blind spots and was notoriously stubborn in arguments
that sporadiaclly inflected his interpersonal relationships. There's much
to be said along such lines, but wholly inappropriate to the issue raised
by Bill Griffiths, and I certainly don't want to get odf into the
substances and rumourmongerings of suchlike here and now. But hey?
Or are you simply raising a point about Glock with no comparison intended.
love and love
cris
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