[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[Robin Hamilton]

I guess I missed it, or didn't realize a URL had been provided.  Anyway, thanks for the URL above, which I've gone to and let off steam at.  

--Bob 

I finally thought to look at it just after (masochistically) reading the Comments appended to one of the current Guardian articles, and being more and more convinced that they're there to demonstrate that, no matter how bad the writers the Guardian pays are, there are a whole lot of folks out there who are worse.

        <sigh>

It's not that *everything that is said is wrong (and on the whole, comments in technical sections can be worth reading) but simply that any information is drowned out by the noise level.

Like listening to not just one but an infinite multitude of pub bores all talking simultaneously.

At least in the KnottBlog, there was only one.

But dear god, apparently you can't (just to pick one rant at random) write poetry if you ain't poor -- talk about faux Romanticism.

When the term Concrete Poetry came up, I couldn't be bothered to parse what was being said, as there was no way of knowing from what *was said (or simply waved around like a flag) whether or not the writer knew what he was talking about.

I suspect if I knew the Sayonara poems being referred to, I probably wouldn't like them, but nothing in the rant that I painfully endured to the end did anything but make me think that the enemy of my enemy might just possibly be my friend.

I think the common element between some blogs (not Bob's for example, whom much as I disagree with is always interesting in his) and the Comments drivel which seems to attach itself to almost all Guardian articles, under their CiF policy, is sheer self-indulgence producing a sound and fury with the usual consequences.

Robin

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