Do you mean "anti-Boyg"?
At 03:54 PM 1/25/2010, you wrote:
>I'm thinking of starting an "Anti-Borg Collectivist MFA poetics"
>movement. Anyone interested in joining?
>
>
>On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:02:07 -0800, Catherine Daly
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >> the choice of
> >examples seems dulled, and based on a who's who in a part of a
>poetry scene
> >that, like all the others, thinks itself the centre of the universe.
> >
> >It's more ignorance coupled with enthusiasm, in my view. If one's map
> >isn't that detailed, it only includes the prize winners, the faculty,
> >the capitals.
> >
> >Some of these people are notorious for some of these lines in
> >particular, or for using this grab bag of tricks, Harvey, Fulton,
> >Shaughnessy, Bang, in particular.
> >
> >> This usage 'moves', it has some curious tones, does it not?
> >
> >I immediately thought of Libby Rifkin's _Career Moves_; her own career
> >got a big push when she happened to be researching at UC San Diego
> >during the pagemothers conference --
> >
> >Of course, my sneaking suspicion for the past twenty years is that
> >free verse which relies on rhetoric, logical fluff ups, and a few
> >slippery workshop tricks is dead. I have been proven wrong. And my
> >work which is like this has been more difficult to get into print than
> >the other stuff. There is a key variation, which is a sort of
> >clotted, gothic, decorated style. And Cole Swensen's version of found
> >poetry, especially now she teaches at Iowa.
> >
> >I am perhaps not proven wrong: the MFA culture has gotten larger and
> >more powerful, and this is the writing which "comes across" to the
> >converted, while not being "poet's poetry." I have been trying to get
> >rid of books again, and the ones selling are just exactly this type of
> >new work that's sort of dull.
> >
> >--
> >All best,
> >Catherine Daly
> >[log in to unmask]
Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University
of California Press).
http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
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