David
I'm definitely not jumping on Frederick's pro-US bandwagon (I have my
problems with US policy, as do we all; not the reaction to the fall of the
towers, but the way an administration I find definitely troubling has been
able to turn that horror to their advantage in order to continue its
ideological attack on a large number of its own people while also more or
less ignoring the rest of he world unless it's 'onside'), but I wonder if
you have encountered (or encountered then) all the great postwar US poetry?
I will say that a lot of the poetry that actually made it to GB through the
mainstream venues wasn't to my eyes & ears all that interesting or at all
the best of what was happening, but a lot of other writing was (well,
admittedly, it was highly influential on my own).
Not to take anything away from the writers of Russia, or an Octavio Paz,
that you mention, but... -- is it that so many US poets of the time did not
appear to be 'political' in the way the writers you mention seem to be?
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I can always
go back to
fertilization,
kimonos, wrap-
arounds and
diatribes.
Lorine Niedecker
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