[New-Poetry] Sexuality and New Poetries

[Anny Ballardini]

It is not a provincial observation. It seems that one has to face it, even 
if my tendency would be to exclude sex from Literary Criticism. On the other 
hand with Poets people like to fathom personal spheres. You never ask your 
doc whom he slept with the previous night when he scribbles down 
incomprehensible notes for you to take a couple of pills (sorry James, here 
again I am against docs), or, oh well, your architect! (as if we all had 
private architects...).

From: "Chris Lott" <chris.lott at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:15 AM


> Until reading a couple of  interviews with Landis Everson and some
> articles that those interviews pointed me to, I  hadn't really noticed
> and/or paid a lot of attention to the fact that the Berkeley
> Renaissance and the New York School was composed largely of gay poets.
> It seems like the dynamics of being gay at a time when it was highly
> stigmatized--  and having a group of other gay writers to collaborate
> with, and all this happening just as a tectonic shift started
> occurring in terms of cultural attitudes towards homosexuality
> shifting-- must have been a really significant factor in the cohesion
> and excitement and creations that came from that group.
>
> Yes? No? Is it a horribly provincial observation? Is there writing out
> there about that whole tangled ball of string?
>
> c
> --
> Chris Lott