Joseph Duemer wrote:
> As I said, Ken, it's your problem. As for me, I was the first kid in my
> whole extended family to graduate from college. Strictly working class. I
> teach Humanities in a second-tier tech school, my position in the academic
> poetry establishment is so fucking marginal I might as well be pumping gas
> for a living. The whole anti-academic, classicism bullshit is just tiresome
> & predictable & irrelevant. If you want to defend the Wright poem against
> the charge of sentimentality, do so by all means, but don't snarl at me for
> power I don't possess.
>
> jd
>
Everyone I know came from that background. What's the point? If you
want to take this conversation to one-to-one, I'll be happy to do that,
though I don't know what the point of the argument will be.
Nevertheless it might prove interesting.
kw
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Kenneth Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
"I agree with the Chekhov character who, when in a crisis, he is
reminded that 'this, too, shall pass,' responds 'Nothing
passes.'"--Philip Roth
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