| Who | When |
Messages | |
|
|
|
Bookninja
|
1
|
 |
|
08-12-2003 04:18 PM ET (US)
|
|
Edited by author 08-13-2003 08:27 AM
The Emperor's New WordsWeb Del Sol says avant-garde poetry is "indistinguishable from the early stages of dementia." Check out the other links on the page for a long diatribe against contemporary American poetry. Home
|
| Z
|
2
|
|
|
09-22-2003 12:26 PM ET (US)
|
|
I, for one, am a big fan of Joan Houlihan's polemics. Along with Dana Gioia and Tom Disch, I think she is one of the best commentators on the contemporary American scene, both for the content of her message and the healthy dose of vitriol with which it is delivered. Keep kickin' ass, Joan!
|
| The Fat Kid
|
3
|
|
|
09-22-2003 02:35 PM ET (US)
|
|
I get the feeling that the comment about dementia is something that a lot of avant-garde writers will relish. Could even be something they work into the jargon of their private discourse: dementism.
|
| Z
|
4
|
|
|
09-23-2003 01:06 PM ET (US)
|
|
Yeah, that's one of the things I love about that essay; Houlihan can play the avant-garde game as well as any of its members.
|
| Bookninja
|
5
|
|
|
01-28-2004 09:39 PM ET (US)
|
|
É 2, Christičnne le Bök?Merde! 'C fou! (LOL* PFW) Home
|
| Bookninja
|
6
|
|
|
05-28-2004 10:10 PM ET (US)
|
|
One Man Avant-garde JamThe cymbals go between the knees. Johnson was, if you like, Britain's one-man literary avant-garde of the 1960s. Yes, of course there were other avant-garde writers around at the time, but they were not as famous as he was, they were not as good at putting their names about, they did not appear on television as often as he did, they did not argue their case as passionately or fight their corner as toughly as he did, and there is not - as far as I can see, anyway - the same stubborn residue of public interest in their lives and work, at the time of my writing this, some 30 or 40 years after the event. Johnson was different. Johnson was special. Home
|
