More boring PC bric a brac ...folderol, sry to say--then so is 95% of modern poesy--really, another update of ee cummings (or WC Williams, beat-haiku greeting cards, etc). "Tennis wit' da net down" in the words of Frost (perhaps the last authentic American poet).
Syntactical cleverness does not a poet make--then one might say the dead Ahht of poesy has been interred for what...80 years? (180? :)) Where's the scribe who could update Dash Hammett's Red Harvest ...or Pynchon for that matter
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I've been an Armantrout fan for over 35 years. A vindication, a ray of hope, and a well-deserved triumph. The best of the "language poets" FOR SURE!
More boring PC bric a brac ...folderol, sry to say--then so is 95% of modern poesy--really, another update of ee cummings (or WC Williams, beat-haiku greeting cards, etc). "Tennis wit' da net down" in the words of Frost (perhaps the last authentic American poet).
Syntactical cleverness does not a poet make--then one might say the dead Ahht of poesy has been interred for what...80 years? (180? :)) Where's the scribe who could update Dash Hammett's Red Harvest ...or Pynchon for that matter
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