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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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17 nov 2010
We used to have knock down drag out fights in the comment boxes about flarf, back in 2006. I would kick Seth Abramson's ass. What happened to that? 2010 is a little boring.
I'm tempted to say that 2010, in the poetry world, marked the broad realization that there is no cure for stupid. I flailed awhile among the comment boxes myself, in the spirit of the times, and it did make me feel that at least poetry matters to someone. An illusion, of course. The battles took place among elites, most of them tenured professors or climbers in search of tenure or PhD candidates honing their thesis arguments. Nobody outside these circles gave a damn; certainly readers of poetry, what few are left, did not give a damn. It was comedy—a Battle of the Theorists, avant-gardist factions waving paper knives in the palace corridors: pure Molière, pure Pope. Oh well.
I gave a damn. And a very vocal (very articulate too, if I may say so) damn. I was neither tenured nor a climber. Nor was I honing my dissertation. I just cared, as a reader of poetry.
I'm tempted to say that 2010, in the poetry world, marked the broad realization that there is no cure for stupid. I flailed awhile among the comment boxes myself, in the spirit of the times, and it did make me feel that at least poetry matters to someone. An illusion, of course. The battles took place among elites, most of them tenured professors or climbers in search of tenure or PhD candidates honing their thesis arguments. Nobody outside these circles gave a damn; certainly readers of poetry, what few are left, did not give a damn. It was comedy—a Battle of the Theorists, avant-gardist factions waving paper knives in the palace corridors: pure Molière, pure Pope. Oh well.
ResponderEliminarI gave a damn. And a very vocal (very articulate too, if I may say so) damn. I was neither tenured nor a climber. Nor was I honing my dissertation. I just cared, as a reader of poetry.
ResponderEliminarElites.
ResponderEliminarThe blog age has passed. Perhaps people are hashing things out on Facebook these days.
ResponderEliminarI wouldn't know.
The blog age has passed. Perhaps people are hashing it out on Facebook.
ResponderEliminarI wouldn't know.