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Groan. I subscribe to NYRB--it's carpeted my bathroom for years. I read it cover to cover because I find much of its content useful and informative. But I despair of its treatment of poetry. Schnackenberg is, whatever her qualities, the neoformalist flavor of the month. The point I was making, for what it's worth, is that a very mainstream, non-academic, for-the-common-reader newspaper reviewed, with highest praise, Trevor's decidedly more adventurous poetry. The NYRB I think would never go there. Unless, of course, the poetry was in translation, preferably from a language spoken in some area of political interest. NYRB has, after many years of ignoring him completely, taken on John Ashbery as its sole excursion into American modernism, but he was sanctified long ago. But I'm willing to recant for the sake of peace. Mark At 09:05 PM 9/9/2001 +0100, you wrote: >Gjertrud Schnackenberg (sp?) got a big and rightful boost >from the NYRB recently. Bloodaxe have just published a big >book of hers here which I must try and get hold of. (I >think as well as Selected it contains her latest book). >I was most impressed with her when I came across her >about fifteen years ago. > > > >Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask] >Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html > >On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Mark Weiss wrote: > >> My point was about the very public recognition of a book of "difficult" >> poetry. >> >> Rain Taxi is not, alas, the big, uncloistered world, any more than are >> academic journals. The NYTimes, whatever its lingo, notices almost no >> poetry. The NY Review of Books has Helen Vendler's taste. >> >> But things are probably worse in Australia. >> >> Mark >> >> At 09:20 AM 9/9/2001 -0400, you wrote: >> >Mark Weiss wrote: >> > >> >> Congratulations on getting some attention in the big world. What someone >> >> wrote about the quality of litcrit in the Australian press goes double for >> >> the US. Hard to imagine the NYTimes taking on anything as interesting. >> > >> > I find this an amazing statement and don't think it's true at all. What >> >many Australian writers (on this list and more generally) complain of is >> >such a profound lack of critical culture as to preclude even a _vocabulary_ >> >of critique, while the U.S. seems if anything overendowed with it, maybe as >> >a result of the diffusion of theory from the academy into a wide range of >> >critical venues from the NY TIMES, say, to RAIN TAXI (say). >> > >> >Candice >> > >> >