I was wondering about the rhetoric Doug used when talking about the
grabbing of power by the mainstream, and the ghettoizing of the
avant-garde. I Don't Imagine that Mainstreamers who write a more popular
poetry (though perhaps not more popular with this list) feel they are
doing too much grabbbing. It seems to me more like market forces at work.
If a group is going to announce itself as avant-garde, wouldn't that have
to be a ghettoized position, in opposition to some imagined (or real)
adversarial fatcats.
I think if your position is one of innovation (which is not such a
innovative stance, it sems to me to be the modernist paradigm), then
wouldn't that be expected to attract a smaller, audience. It seems almost
to be part of the impulse. I don't see a conspiracy at work led by the
Faber/Bloodaxe gang.
Maybe they'll sign me up after this posting and I'll drop all this
innovation hooey.
Best
MArtin
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