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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.”
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."
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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."
--Guillermo
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