(correction: K.Goldsmith not Greenman)
I suppose I ought to mention that my original response on this was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, I did imagine my claiming to be the author, or should I write Author, of the non-existent 'If It's On The Internet It Doesn't Exist'' would underline that (vide 'I's Not On The Internet It Doesn't Exist' - K.Greenman).I must confess the temptation of doing a Kent on Kent was impossible to resist (I had considered simply re-wording the whole of the notice and substituting either my own or a fictitious name for Kent's) though I do quite like Kent - it's just that I've never known of anybody who talks of the non-ego who hoists his own flag so much.As for bourgeois poetry, I have no doubt that much of the poetry promoted on both sides of the Atlantic, on all sides of tradition, qualifies for that. (You could use a different epithet: consumerist poetry perhaps, wherein the status 'poet' an implied part of the package?) A person doesn't have to be bourgeois to write bourgeois poetry: in the last century W.H.Davies was an example of that, while it's certainly possible to be an anti-bourgeois bourgeois: Marx and Engels, obviously. Even Cesar Vallejo came from something like the middle class.I always recall that the only criticism of Ulysees that bothered Joyce came from an American woman who said it was 'too middle class'.
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David Bircumshaw
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You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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