[New-Poetry] Conceptual

[David Graham]

I'm not familiar with Goldsmith's work, but the notion of retyping  
the New York Times puts me in mind of my favorite definition of  
conceptual art:  that which it is more fun to talk about than  
experience.

All the spunk & flavor comes from the commentary, the debate, the  
provocation of it, not from the work per se.  That's the big dividing  
line, I'd venture, between aesthetic critics like Vendler, and  
theoretical critics of whatever ideology.

I am aware that not everyone will agree. . . .


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