[New-Poetry] Camlle Paglia

[Chris Lott]

So in a way, Paglia's closest compatriot on this list should be Bob,
who also thinks (I think) that all those modes of poetry are worn out
and looks at contemporary poetry of those kinds and finds it all
wanting.

It wouldn't surprise me if Paglia were completely unaware of most of
the post-avant and visual crowd-- I'm continually amazed at the
relatively well-read poetry readers who have no clue that any of that
exists.

Someone needs to send Paglia some Mathemaku-- if she likes it who
knows what might happen. A Paglia/Grumman collaboration? The end of
the world as we know it?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 04:05, Judy Prince <jbalizsprince at googlemail.com> wrote:
> IF, in her book, Paglia, through her many critiques, shows us what she
> thinks is exceptional poetry and convincingly demonstrates why she thinks
> it's exceptional, then we must conclude that she does not find the more
> contemporary poetry, for the most part, exceptional poetry.  We must accept
> that.  The scary part is only that, having agreed with her about her
> lovingly-dissected favourites, we are left holding poetry that we judge to
> be of equal merit---poetry, in some cases, which sounds like what we
> ourselves write.  No wonder Paglia's frustrating us!