On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:56:07 +0100, Orlando wrote:
>Its the flexibility which interests me. Aren't 'Flexible friends' are also
>a source of great debt and folly?
- yeah, I know, flexibility can sound awful slithery until one
considers the opposite: inflexibility. But if
"What does not change / is the will to change"
- that will is consistent in predicating against inflexibility. OK!
Looking again through those anthologies (I'll put them away now,
promise) I note that we can tentatively chart the rise and fall of the
p-word:
1960 - no mention of "postmodern" in The New American Poetry
1973 - no mention of "p" in The Poetics of the New American Poetry
1982 - repackaged as "The Postmoderns"
1994 - Norton's "Postmodern American Poetry"
1999 - TNAP re-issued under old name, no mention of pomo
This partial graph would suggest a currency for the term spanning the
early-80s to mid-90s - spookily similar to The Thatcher Years, or
perhaps Wham! It makes you think...
RC
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