"...it seems to me to be the single most important issue on the table, as far as poetry is concerned: the carving out of a space for intellectual life in America that is independent of both the pharisaical uniformalisms of the academy and the lowest-common denominator thinking that dominates broadcast media." (Buck Downs)
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what an excellent quotation.
this session we're teaching, in hopes of giving an idea of what the contemporary poet does:
1. charles olsen's projective verse
2. carolyn forche's idea of poetry of witness
3. adrienne rich's idea of the poet as a revisionist
4. phillip larkin's idea of the pleasure principle
and then we're going to throw down a big booyah in all the kids faces.
what's your address? let's be pen pals. I wanna write letters.
Denis Leary-iah
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