[New-Poetry] Academy-Award Winnning Sad Thought

[TheOldMole]

Or, to some extent, Donald Hall and Ted Hughes, both for the same reason.

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> I'm no Kenneth Goldsmith expert, for sure...but I think him mostly as 
> not a poet but as a conceptual artist. I once wrote in my notebook 
> that I hoped never to be so bored with my life, that I'd actually read 
> any of Kenneth Goldsmith's 'poetry'. Most of it is not really to be 
> read, or I don't think so anyway. It's really his attempt to provoke 
> thinking about what literature is; how text works and doesn't work, 
> etc. Or some of it could be described as 'postmodadaism'.
>  
> It probably can be said that somewhere toward the end of the 20thC no 
> poets existed outside of their readership by other poets (in or out of 
> the academy). There are exceptions of course: Ginsberg when he was 
> alive, a cultural phenom like Maya Angelou, Billy Collins who raised 
> his sails deftly and high enough to catch the Zeitgeist and cruise 
> outside of the territorial waters of Poets' Island. And there are some 
> unsubstantiated reports of 'common readers' who still attend to 
> poetry. But those folks always remind of the Japanese soldiers who 
> would be found 10, 20, 30 years after the end of hostilities in 
> the Pacific, living rough in caves on a deserted atoll, still awaiting 
> orders from The Emperor to return home.   
> Finnegan
>  
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cstroffo at earthlink.net
> Sent: Fri, 18 May 2007 2:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Academy-Award Winnning Sad Thought
>
> Correction---I meant Jersey City (not Hoboken).....
>
> On May 18, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Chris Stroffolino wrote:
>
>> Ah, the feel good hit in the summer. 
>>
>> I thought Kenny-G had a thinkership, or at least a listenership, 
>> through his radio show on WFMU.
>> WFMU was a college radio station in The Oranges (New Jersey), but 
>> even when the college went under,
>> the station still existed. For  a few years, they used to proudly 
>> announce how they broadcasted from a "Ghost Campus."
>> Then, since much of their listening audience was in the NYC 
>> metropolitan area, they relocated to Hoboken.
>> I doubt the film would win an academy award, but you never know.
>> Maybe Kenny G., will argue that his DJ existence was not in any way 
>> connected with his poet existence....
>>
>> On May 18, 2007, at 10:20 AM, JforJames at aol.com 
>> <mailto:JforJames at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/05/the_academy.html
>>>  
>>> Kenneth Goldsmith--
>>> "Without the academy, as I poet I don't exist. I have almost no 
>>> readership (thinkership) outside the academy. This is not a choice 
>>> of mine: it's is a condition that preceded my arrival onto the 
>>> writing scene, fostered by numerous cultural conditions in the 
>>> States -- primarily by the precedent set by the warm reception of 
>>> Language Poetry by the academy in the 80s. As a result, since then, 
>>> innovative or experimental writing lives only in the academy. "
>>>  
>>> --
>>> It's the reader's fault--Finnegan
>>>  
>>>
>>>
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