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"The very existence of poetry should make us laugh. What is it all about? What is it for?"
--Kenneth Koch
“El subtítulo ‘Modelo para armar’ podría llevar a creer que las
diferentes partes del relato, separadas por blancos, se proponen como piezas permutables.”
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24 abr 2007
Robert Pinsky. Like Altoids, but "curiously bland" instead of "curiously strong." Rooting poetry in oral performance is a radical theory, but couched in such bland, middle-brow language it's not likely to have radical consequences.
Bland, self-important, careerist, the ultimate mediocre poet, that's Pinsky. Studying with him at BU was a lesson in what to avoid as a poet and teacher.
I love Stephen Spender's observation about Pinsky (in his Journals, Faber & Faber, 1985):
"He read a long poem about playing tennis which was wonderfully observed, but it struck me that this was poetic copy-writing. Illustrated with photographs, the poem would make a marvellous brochure for a firm selling tennis rackets."
Bland, self-important, careerist, the ultimate mediocre poet, that's Pinsky. Studying with him at BU was a lesson in what to avoid as a poet and teacher.
ResponderEliminarI love Stephen Spender's observation about Pinsky (in his Journals, Faber & Faber, 1985):
"He read a long poem about playing tennis which was wonderfully observed, but it struck me that this was poetic copy-writing. Illustrated with photographs, the poem would make a marvellous brochure for a firm selling tennis rackets."
--Guillermo