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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Poems by others: John Yau, "Stuffing yourself into a
blizzard"
> Re: Objectivism and Language Poetry. Few of the extremely varied crew
> that's identified with LANGUAGE review, as much (perhaps more) an
> advertizing ploy than a coherent group, owe anything much to the
> objectivists, but they certainly have been eager to coopt the common
> ancestors of a great deal of contemporary poetry, so as to create the
> impression that they represent the only true line of descent. How can
> these manoeuvres of the present tarnish the past?
>
> I have a house guest who identifies herself as a Language poet. She was
> surprised that Jackson MacLow wrote the blurb for one of my books. Jackson
> wasn't a Language poet, though he didn't fight cooptationand its publicity
> value and was guardedly friendly with many of them. It's pretty sad that
> he's been forced into a box as predecessor, obscuring the extraordinary
> range of his practice. But such is life.
>
> Mark
>
Word! (Contemporary equivalent of "Right on!")
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