To be fair, Silliman's spoken kindly (at least) of some
SOQ poets. I'm not sure that liking has much to do with
it.
Hal
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On Jul 7, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Christopher Walker wrote:
> <snip>
> School of Quietude? [KW]
> <snip>
>
> Ron Silliman's Manichean term of art for (US) poets he doesn't like. I
> suppose it's marginally less inept than his antonym, 'post-avant', a
> preposterous coinage (Lenin combined with Lyotard) which really
> ought to
> mean no more than *those coming after whatever came before*.
>
> CW
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> I might have known you'd choose the easy way
> (Franz Kline's mother)
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