Doug, I think most of these sites are designed to keep
Canadians out.
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Douglas Barbour
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> Well, I couldnt get in, but I guess the real problem here is just who 'the
> common reader' is. And do any of them read or listen to poetry ( what does
> any one of them mean by that term?).
>
> What always surprises me is how well people who are caught in a poetry
> reading (as, say, students in a class where the prof brings one in) 'get' so
> much.
>
> So I'm not sure who Armitage is speaking about, but I have seen, in many
> critical surveys, a sense that modernism as promoted by Pound et.al.,
> 'didn’t quite catch on.'
>
> Doug
> On 24-Sep-09, at 1:35 AM, andrew burke wrote:
>
> The Daily Free Press at Boston University has just published an article
>> about Simon Armitage at
>>
>> http://www.dailyfreepress.com/simon-armitage-speaks-on-poetry-art-1.1907598in
>> which was reported:
>>
>> Armitage also drew a distinction between American and British poetry. In
>> the United States, he said, “poetry imploded into the universities.”
>>
>> “In the States, poetry is campus-based,” he said. “A lot of poets are
>> housed
>> in universities where they are respected and looked after. In the UK, [I
>> have a] general feeling modernism didn’t quite catch on. I think in the
>> UK,
>> poets like myself tend to write for the common reader.”
>>
>> END
>>
>> That sounds very condescending to 'the common reader' to me. Any thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
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