If you are interested in this sort of thing, you might want to have a go at this: "Semiotics, deconstruction, New Criticism, blah, blah, blah. Poetry is in crisis, says Joseph Wood, and careless theorizing is to blame... more"
I know many (actually, most) of the people mentioned, either personally or through correspondence. I have been to more AWP conferences than I can count. Decade after decade. The mere thought of it turns my soul a whiter shade of pale.
But the only real argument against the institutionalization of poetry, or any other art, I think, is flesh and blood. You gotta bleed, not blog.
I know many (actually, most) of the people mentioned, either personally or through correspondence. I have been to more AWP conferences than I can count. Decade after decade. The mere thought of it turns my soul a whiter shade of pale.
ReplyDeleteBut the only real argument against the institutionalization of poetry, or any other art, I think, is flesh and blood. You gotta bleed, not blog.
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Those of us who can only read are forced to blog.
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