Hi Pierre. Why do you characterize it as conservative?
I'm currently having a look at Litteraria at http://issuu.com/litteraria .
This consists of 20 books mostly edited by Louis Armand. With titles such as
"Literate Technologies", "Language Systems", and "Avant-Post". Most of
these, like COMPLICITIES, consist of essays by various people.
"Litteraria Pragensia Books (LPB) is an independent imprint published in
cooperation with the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory, Charles
University, Prague. In affiliation with the cultural studies journal
Litteraria Pragensia (founded 1990), LPB published its first title in 2002;
since then it has evolved into an independent book series specialising in
contemporary poetics, literature, critical theory & cultural studies..."
ja
http://vispo.com
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Subject: Re: COMPLICITIES--English Poetry 1945-2007
At first glance this looks extremely limited & very conservative, despite or
including the presence of Prynne & some Cambridgers. The claim that this
represents / covers "English poetry 1945 & 2007" is totally off the wall.
Back in 1984 I wrote an intro to the anthology MATIERES D'ANGLETERRE which
has just been translated into English by Peter Cockelbergh & is up at Jacket
# 40 (url:
http://jacketmagazine.com/40/joris-cocklebergh-made-in-england.shtml),
offering a very different view of the state of British poetry. On my blog
(http://www.pierrejoris.com/blog/?p=2147) you can find the list of poets
Paul Buck & I included in that anthology. That was 26 years ago & the lists
would be different now, and before all, wider. Since then there have been a
umber of anthologies that show the width of UK poetry, though maybe not
collections of essays covering the same ground as yet. COMPLICITIES may be
useful (can't tell even that, haven't read enough) in terms of throwing
light on a the poets dealt with in the essays, but the enterprise as a
whole seems like another narrow conservative attempt at canon- making.
Pierre
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