altho' i like Jeremy Prynne's texts i do feel his work lacks
'urgency' - compare J.H.P to Cesar Vallejo for example.
I am intrigued by this notion of "urgency". What exactly do you mean by
this? Does it mean that Prynne is a parlour room poet and doesn't engage
with life? That the typographical effects in Vallejo's poetry were an
expression of the poet's anguish --his arrests, and overall frustration.
Can we also perhaps extend this to discuss the notion of leisureness which
produces the CamPo or LangPo (two characters in a Gilbert & Sullivan Opera).
Is the linguistic innovation in CamPo, ultimately anti-bourgeois, in the
same sense as say Art House movies, or avant-garde art, and the consumption
of these works is equivalent to that of those who go for la haute mode, rare
wine, and first edition, -- la consummation de luxe, aiming at exclusivity.
The brand of CamPo is no different from the experimental music --which has a
small audience of initiates. Ah yes initiates. That this line of artistic
endeavour has a lineage that goes back to the "experiments" of the Sitwells,
who enjoyed a leisured and tangential relationship with European high
modernism. The English parlour room approach to life, an ineffectual "muck"
around with art that lacks the integrity of the works on the Continent or
produced in America --lacking that expansiveness and liberation of America,
and the political & social engagement of European work. A sad affair, amply
demonstrated in the reports by Americans and French. As Lister says, am I
rumbling for a fight? Not really. Just seeking answers.
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