[New-Poetry] Goldbarth/Moonology

[Anthony Lawrence]

I like Goldbarth's poetry. That he's so prolific is not a problem for  
me. Token postmodernist:
interesting thought. The Australian poet John Kinsella publishes at  
at an astonishing rate,
but his work hardly ever arrests my inner attention.


On 24/08/2006, at 12:07 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

> David,
> I count myself as a fan of his work...but I think the reservations
> are valid, too. Too much, too many, too much the same. The
> 'library poem' that was posted is telling, because this poetry
> is made from books...not from life. One of his books had the
> title Pop Culture and the poetry shows that kind of surface
> flitting we get as surfing past Discovery, History, TNT, SciFi,
> MTV, AMC...
>
> It used be that the great poets had a handful of concerns/themes....
> it was inevitable that our age would produce a major bard afflicted
> with ADD.
> Finnegan
>
>
> In a message dated 8/22/2006 4:56:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
> grahamd at ripon.edu writes:
> Yes, I've been on a serious Albert Goldbarth kick of late.   
> Wondering, among other things, what others think of his work.   
> Wondering, also, if many people beyond Albert Goldbarth have  
> managed to read more than a fraction of his writings.  He seems to  
> publish another 132 page collection of poems every year or two, a  
> dizzying Ashberyan rate.
>
> He's had great success, clearly, winning major awards and  
> publishing prolifically for decades with high-profile journals and  
> presses.  But somehow we seldom see his name crop up in short lists  
> of the most important contemporary poets.
>
> Some reviews I've seen have expressed weariness at his overstuffed  
> high-octane style and his fevered encyclopedic subject matter;  
> others have reveled in his bumptious energy, humor, and oddball  
> perspectives.  Mostly his reviews have seemed remarkably positive.   
> Yet he still seems somehow to lurk at the fringes a bit.
>
> Given his relentless eccentricity, his formal genre-blurring and  
> experimentalism, as well as his frequent focus on anatomizing  
> language itself, I'm curious as to why his name doesn't more often  
> show up in experimentalist circles.  Is he the mainstream's token  
> postmodernist?
>
>
> On 8/22/06 3:00 PM, "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
>
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