[New-Poetry] CD Wright's body count

[jforjames at aol.com]

I apologize for the 'claque' bit. I'm a listserv type...and subbed to 4, so I'll
pass on your invitation..but,
a 'coffee table book'?...come on. When a serious artist/photographer
and poet collaborate, do you want them to produce the thing
in mimeo? I happened to hear Wright talk at length on _One Big
Self_ at this symposium on the collaboration of poets and artists
making books together...
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/metaphor/Participants.html
If you want to call it, as a slight,?an 'art book',?I might disagree
but I'd see where you were coming from.?

She reads from the text here:
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Wright.html
Let the cards play themselves, we say in poker.

The larger issue is Why is?i?a poet can't weigh into social and political
issues? And who gets to say this poet has less cred than this one?
Finnegan

-----Original Message-----
From: Rsgwynn1 at cs.com
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Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] CD Wright's body count


In a message dated 6/29/2008 7:17:31 PM Central Daylight Time, JforJames at aol.com writes: 


In a message dated 6/26/2008 12:03:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Rsgwynn1 at cs.com writes:


http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/ubbhtml/Forum15/HTML/000289.html 



I seems like the claque concurs. But I don't see the evidence that 'poetry of witness' is by nature flawed?
I think you are uncomfortable with socio-political poetry. Many are. But C.D. Wright, if nothing else, doesn't seem a casual observer recasting newsclippings into poetry. 
Finnegan



Eratosphere is an open forum, James, just like this one.? You're free to post your opinions there, as I am here.

Sam 

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