Kwang wrote:
"I believe poetry in the US will have to contend with the fact of its
insularity. Poetry ought to compete with the most spectacular of our
arts:
film, t.v. internet....not so much in terms of content, I guess, than in
terms
of stylistic attitude. Personally, I'd like to see more poetry than can
chart
metaphoric connections, cross (genre) boundaries if you will, between a
show
like MASH, Calif's English only laws, and...perhaps a domestic
narrative
where a child asks why 'Orientals' talk so funny..."
I think this is right. We'll see combinations of genre bending,
tone-shifting, and the mixing of so-called popular and high culture(s).
Albert Goldbarth comes to mind, a sort of high-ocatane High Modernist,
but watch for Claire Bateman's forthcoming _Friction_ from Eighth
Mountain Press (Portland OR) in which Frankenstein, the psychic friends
and MacDonalds get mixed up in what seem to me completely new ways.
--
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Joseph Duemer
School of Liberal Arts
Clarkson University
Potsdam NY 13699
Phone: 315-262-2466
Fax: 315-268-3983
duemer@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
"To think, not to dream, that is our duty."
Van Gogh to his brother
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