>Doug,
>
> I am admittedly 'academically-deprived' but I'm always puzzled by the
>mainstream's seeming ignorance of these issues even though they have been a
>part of langpo for many years and 'experimental' writing for even longer.
>
tom
depends on what you think 'the mainstream' is I guess. Here in Canada, at
least in parts of it (I tend to say out West, as I teach here, some people
who thinnk that way teach in Manitoba, George Bowering & others
teach/taught in Vancouver BC), these have been the issues we have taken up
in the light of the kind of poetry I was pointing to in the earlier post.
You can't read, fro example, Robert Kroetsch' wonderful Field Notes, its
many separate long poems collected together, without confronting them. Or
any of the other long poems about specific historical figures I mentioned...
Doug
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