[New-Poetry] cummings, grammaticality

[Joseph Duemer]

Add Deadwood to Six Feet Under on the list of innovative television.
Actually, I find both these shows hard to watch (I'm such a sensitive
soul!).


On 12/31/06, Suzanne Burns <queenmouse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My housemate, who is a media studies professor at Emerson and who writes
> film scripts, was looking over my shoulder as I wrote that last reply.
>
> Her response:  Please tell your list that feature filmmaking, thanks to
> the Hollywood blockbuster hegemony, is pretty dead right now, and most of
> the really creative and innovative work is being done on television.  She
> recommends that you watch Six Feet Under and then get back with any
> contemporary poet (post-Creeley, whom she adores) who even comes close to
> its emotional depth.
>
> Her opinion is that too many contemporary poets barely skim the emotional
> surface and repeat themselves a lot, and speculates that perhaps the
> excesses of the "confessional movement" scared a lot of poets away from
> emotional content, sending them fleeing to the fields of abstraction and
> formal experiment, and who can blame them.  We both agree that sometimes
> film explores an emotional depth without necessarily evoking the same
> exploration on the part of the viewer ("passives"), and that reading  is
> innately more meditative.
>
> She is making brunch as I speak (good housemate!) while continuing to
> wonder if poetry is even a particularly good medium for plumbing emotional
> depths, given how condensed it is.  I am hauling down my Mark Doty right now
> to make a counter argument to this, while she simulatanously admits that
> Creeley proves her deeply wrong on that. I predict and afternoon watching
> DVDs and ploughing through many books, followed by an evening spent eating
> tapas with geeks and more chatter.
>
> Posted at her request.
>
> Suzanne
>
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-- 
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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