Joseph Duemer wrote:
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> This whole rigmarole about "professors" is simply stupid, as if the
> academy in America were monolithic, as if teaching were not just one
> more form of work. And if Americans HAD allowed their poetry to be
> "hijacked," whose fault would that be? I live in a little town in
> northern New York State & at the coffee house on Saturday nights you
> can hear plenty of poets reciting their stuff--some from the local
> college, some members of the Unitarian Church, some who live in
> cabins out in the woods without electricity. Poetry is alive & well
> in the US, but what guys like Dana Gioia can't stand is that it
> can't be organized for purposes of ideology, which is what he & most
> of the self-proclaimed "New Formalists" are about.
>
> jd
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Good point succinctly put. I think, however, it's important to
recognize that rightist intellectuals rarely admit to being either
organized or ideological. Ideology and organization (or conspiracy) is
always something the other side has, and which vitiates the other side's
art.
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