Nate was saying that it is getting very quiet in here so I thought
I would say that I have just read Robert Sheppard's critical book
from Stride. It seems that postmodernism was a reaction to the
Movement in the sense that the postmodern poets in reaction wanted
to make their work near enough unintelligible to the ordinary reader.
And Robert Sheppard is quite satisfied that they have succeeded.
This ties in very well with a recent letter in the TLS from Vernon
Scannell where he talks about the postmodern critics of Symborska
being amazed that her work is easily understanable and wondering
what is wrong with her. I thought I would mention these things in
passing. There are six copies of Prynne's Poems in Bath WAterstones.
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