[New-Poetry] reductio absurdum - the game

[Anny Ballardini]

I would not be able to put them together. Is there anybody who does?
Except for Snyder and the existential question on the bear.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:48 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> Paul Hoover posted this facetious short-changing of contemporary/modernist
> poets & movements...
>
> http://paulhooverpoetry.blogspot.com/
>
> Reviewing poetry is increasingly a lost art, and it's so much work! I've
> created 26 instant reviews of no more than one line. The idea is match all
> the poets, critics, or school of poetry with their review. Match all of them
> and you may win a valuable prize.
>
> 1. Emily Dickinson
> 2. Ted Berrigan
> 3. Hart Crane
> 4. John Ashbery
> 5. Allen Ginsberg
> 6. Donald Justice
> 7. Marjorie Welish
> 8. Language Poetry
> 9. Marianne Moore
> 10. Galway Kinnell
> 11. Laura Riding
> 12. The New Formalism
> 13. August Kleinzahler
> 14. Jack Spicer
> 15. Gertrude Stein
> 16. Ezra Pound
> 17. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
> 18. Helen Vendler
> 19. Sharon Olds
> 20. Charles Olson
> 21. Dana Gioia
> 22. Anne Waldman
> 23. Frank O'Hara
> 24. Jack Kerouac
> 25. Gary Snyder
> 26. Paul Blackburn
>
> A. Badda bing, badda boom.
> B. Does a bear shit in the woods?
> C. And if not, not.
> D. My typewriter is bigger than your typewriter.
> E. Big man, small town.
> F. A little more uncertainty, please.
> G. The well-hung muse.
> H. Rebel angels, measured heaven.
> I. I think I'll write a dictionary.
> J. Stiff shirt in a sad closet.
> K. There's no such thing as post-publication.
> L. Unsettled by the name Oil Can Boyd.
> M. I do not think it will signify to me.
> N. Shyness unrequited
> O. Nearing the non-ending.
> P. Daring as never before.
> Q. What price salience?
> R. Not waving but drowning
> S. Admiral and existentialist.
> T. Let me recite you a ballad.
> U. Is there sex in this class?
> V. I've stopped being Theirs -
> W. The emperor's old clothes.
> X. Accidents are not itineraries.
> Y. Spare hanger in a bone closet.
> Z. How strange to be gone in a minute.
>
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