[New-Poetry] Re: cummings

[David Baratier]

Bob--
   
  Cummings was interested in phonemes, morphemes, individual letters and their effect, and roots, on/in speech. L-po is, in nearly all constructs, Anti-speech, in fact "I hate speech" from Bob Grenier was picked up as some form of an anthem, and their focus was on the word substantially more so than individual units. Sorry, I am not buying this randomly chosen co-opt, Cummings had more kinship and truck with the concrete movement, who refused to induct him because he was "famous".  

Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
          David, one can be something before it has a name.
   
  --Bob
     
  

  >>>Let me just throw in that Cummings was an important Language Poet, but 
the language poets have never acknowledged his influence--that I know of. --Bob G. 

Bob-- That is not true, Cummings died 10 years before the first language poet even had a book published, and 16 years before the magazine that created the phrase. 




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