Her professional accomplishments are beside the point.
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From: "Barry Alpert" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: 2 poems
"Ann Lauterbach
Ruth and David E. Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature
Program(s): Integrated Arts, Literature, Writing Program in Fiction and
Poetry
B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Columbia
University.
Teacher and director of the literature program at the Institute of
Contemporary Arts.
Books include If in Time (2001); On a Stair (1997); And For Example (1994);
Clamor
(1991); Before Recollection (1987); Many Times, But Then (1979).
Contributing editor,
Conjunctions (1981- ). Wrote column "The Night Sky" in American Poetry
Review. Grants:
New York State Foundation for the Arts, Ingram Merrill Foundation,
Guggenheim
Foundation, MacArthur Fellowship (1993). Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate
School of the
Arts and Center for Curatorial Studies. (1997- ) David and Ruth Schwab
Professor of
Languages and Literature."
Will Poetryetc's "board" post the list's language regarding sexism. That
phrase "meaty
masterpiece", within a context which can't be regarded as literary criticism
and more
closely resembles jealous personal assault (repeated from "before"), needs
serious
consideration.
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:45:32 -0400 Frederic Pollack wrote:
This is really really really terrible. The word "light" - usually
pronounced, at readings,
with a kind of tearful gurgle before the l and a breathy-ecstatic gasp after
the t; the "you"
interpolated like a bumper between speaker and reader; the gassy-ethereal
non-situation
and non-emotions; the emphasis on "images" - otherwise she'd haveta mention
"language" --- I've noticed this poet before; she seems to be respected by
po-biz flacks.
And why not? In her, Langpo meaningless mates elegantly with Mainstream
triviality.
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:51:35 -0400, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Sorry - in my remarks on the Lauterbach poem, I meant to say "Mainstream
>meaninglessness." -- After that meaty masterpiece of hers, these two
>recent
>ones of mine (no doubt overmasculinist, unpleasantly "closed," depressingly
>retrograde) may serve as a ... sorbet.
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