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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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*Jean Valentine. The Cradle of the Real Life. 2000. 75 pp.
I'd forgotten how good this book was--but something told me to bring it home today. It's rare to find a book with so little overwriting.
Wow... I'm surprised you like Valentine's book at all. It seems so... "quiet" and mainstream-ish for you. Although I have no idea what most of the Spanish authors you've been mentioning in your trek are like and no way to find out...
A lot of those divisions are arbitrary. To me it is as much a part of the Pound-Williams tradition as Levertov or Fanny Howe might be. You package that book differently, pubish it in Sun & Moon, and it becomes avant-garde.
Wow... I'm surprised you like Valentine's book at all. It seems so... "quiet" and mainstream-ish for you. Although I have no idea what most of the Spanish authors you've been mentioning in your trek are like and no way to find out...
ResponderEliminarA lot of those divisions are arbitrary. To me it is as much a part of the Pound-Williams tradition as Levertov or Fanny Howe might be. You package that book differently, pubish it in Sun & Moon, and it becomes avant-garde.
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