[New-Poetry] Ultra-Talk & Goldbarth

[Skip Fox]

I think I understand it . . . if that's the accurate quote (sometimes it's a
crapshoot with me). F. T. Prince was a formal poet like the other two but
had qualities Antin liked. Perhaps this is my projection, but Prince has an
energetic thrust of mind, feel of words as entities, and created such a
lustrous surface on the page that might attract Antin over the wry and coy
(Frost), or or the exhausted intellect (Lowell), no matter how refined, no
matter how "right." Like I say, maybe my projection.

 

F.T. Prince, by the way, was on an album of readings from St. Mark's.
Stunning. I highly recommend his work if you come across it.

 

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"If Robert Frost is a poet, I don't want to be a poet. If Robert Lowell is a
poet, I don't want to be a poet. If F.T. Prince is a poet . . . I'll
consider it." (Antin)


That is a curious remark...I've not heard FT Prince's name in years. I don't
know when he said it, but at date, it sounds like he's saying "I'll consider
being a forgotten British poet, but not a famous American poet."
Finnegan



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