[New-Poetry] Aesthetic Diversity in Poetry Today

[Halvard Johnson]

Oh, I know, James. It's even a NICE oxymoron,
but what a cross for those folks to bear.

Hal

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On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:24 PM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:

> This age of instant and widespread commumication has shortened the  
> time
> in which avant-garde practices are recognized and subsumed by the  
> academy.
> It happens in one's lifetime more commonly nowadays. Also, the  
> universities
> and endowed arts organizations, which are the traditional arbiters  
> of taste, have become
> more porous and open in their attitudes. They've had to, to stay  
> relevant.
> Thus, as the ivy walls have become a more permeable membrane, the new
> and strange with increasing ease and speed gets absorbed into those  
> institutions
> which are the establishment.
> Hence Silliman, Berstein, Hejinian, Perlman, Watten, Andrews, et  
> al, are famous poets,
> established and renowned, and still 'avant garde' relative to a  
> larger body of
> practicing poets. Hence 'established avantgardist'. But there is  
> probably
> a better term for such things. Bob's got one, I'm sure.
> Finnegan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Wed, Sep 5 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Aesthetic Diversity in Poetry Today
>
> "Established avantgardists"--now there's an oxymoron to
> reckon with.
>
> Hal
>
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