Re: [New-Poetry] An Era of DÃ(c)tente for Creative-Wri ting Programs

[Chris Lott]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:05 AM, TheOldMole<Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
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> I actually took a stab at this once, Chris --
> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/retallack.html
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> But I didn't get very far.

Interesting. I had a shiver of recognition reading the last lines:

"I believe that all this adds something to the vocabulary of art. But
I don't know how to judge it. I can't tell you if this is good stasis
or mediocre stasis...le detritus juste, or the wrong scraps on the
wall."

That's pretty much how I feel about a lot of poems. And not in the
traditional "the more I know, the more I know I don't know" sense.
Even if one doesn't want to engage in judging poems, it seems like
there's something missing if there's no way to even personally judge
what is good from what is mediocre (flarf poetry exemplifies this
problem).

I'll be looking for Bob's essay. Is it online?

c