[New-Poetry] Concerning "fauxpo"

[Anny Ballardini]

I agree with Dick Allen.
I'll answer the third question:

Leonardo, Dante, Nietzsche, Baudelaire, Hoelderlin, Schiller, Ezra Pound,
and several more.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:55 PM, James Cervantes
<cervantes.james at gmail.com>wrote:

> from The Writer's Chronicle (AWP), October/November 2008, "A Recognizable
> Life: An Interview with Dick Allen," by Leslie McGrath:
>
> "McGrath: What are your thoughts about the fragmented, elliptical,
> 'difficult' poetry written by many young American poets today?
>
> Allen:  If you're talking about Language Poetry, I don't consider it
> 'poetry' but faux poetry, fauxpo, done by theorists.  That's fine and
> enjoyable in the head, just as Dada was fine and enjoyable, but it's not
> poetry.  Poetry is an emotional art, which may contain a great deal of
> reason, but without emotion, without strong ties to understandability,
> fragmented, elliptical, 'difficult' writing of that sort is just words in
> arrangements.
>
>      In the future, this sort of stuff might mutate to become sections of
> larger future poems in which there's much weaving through nonsense to
> meaning.  Some young poets seem to be starting to work in these directions,
> but we're still waiting.  When the general public, or even the non-English
> major college student begins buying and quoting these works, then something
> will have happened.  But it doesn't seem to me that we're anywhere near
> there yet.
>
>      I'm also wondering about the amount of trivia included in many of
> today's poems.  It seems necessary to include trivia because trivia is so
> much part and parcel of the 21st century consciousness and day-to-day life.
> Yet will the future care to remember X-men or a cell phone ring, even when
> footnoted?  I think there are still new and specific and memorable ways to
> write about the eternal."
>
> Talking points:
>
> Isn't all poetry "words in arrangements"?
>
> Who is writing the kind of poetry Allen  hints at in the second paragraph
> of his response?
>
> Who has the answers on what is eternal?
>
> Why won't Allen pal around with terrorists?
>
> - Jim
>
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