[New-Poetry] Re: New-Poetry Digest, Vol 56, Issue 5

[David Baratier]

>So, I'm wondering, what are your thoughts on Bunting? 
> And why on earth is
> he so ignored?  

Bunting is too difficult for poets and their negligent attention spans. He is his own thing. If he was so similar to Pound many would read him because pomo Universities train "how to read."

Bunting has little truck with Pound, in fact the word "Pound" has become the unread poets version of laziness. "It's like Pound," synonymous with too much effort. "How come I cannot find these Chinese Analytics on my new Blackberry?" If we want to offer a populist American comparison, Charles Wright has much more in common. Early Wright Americanizes "P's" influence through a faux "oriental screen," his shorter lines with stunted vocabulary and elimination of otherness in language and pictograph are typical of frontierism. 

Go back to mapping of poems.
The key to Bunting is sound spoken aloud.


Be well

David Baratier, Editor

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