I'm a little puzzled by Lawrence Upton's reaction to Mr Teichman's note
since it seemed to me to be what it said it was: a simple question.
Nothing wrong with the phrase (or abbreviation) "the current a.g.", which
seems as useful a shorthand as any other for the various experimental
poetries.
While in the case of Brady I'm as yet unsure, there certainly _have_ been
claims that recent authors in the U.S. have moved towards a more, er,
"lyrical" language. A few years back at the New Hampshire conference Steve
Evans gave a talk promoting a younger generation of US poets--Moxley,
Jarnot, Rod Smith, Jordan Davis, L.A. Brown, Luoma, &c.--in precisely such
terms. -- I don't know what relation, if any, that has to Brady's project,
which seems to me to have closer links to, e.g., John Wilkinson's writing,
which features a rhetoric which I suppose to the unsympathetic might seem
pitched at a hyperbolically high level, e.g.:
These are knowledge's creatures yet cannot be known to one
holds his pieces, mashing them through his million fingers.
A barcode I have to stroke that its perfume might assist.
Badge of distinction, flapping gongs, & tear-off stigmata
flatten those all-knowing.
(from Wilkinson's _Reverses_)
all best --N
Nate & Jane Dorward
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