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

[Mark Weiss]

There are poems I enjoy living with that I couldn't explain or 
understand in other terms but for some reason give me pleasure, keep 
me trying, whatever--a sense that tho I can't grasp it there's 
something there, an engendered trust in the poe,/poet. Sometimes I 
get the mechanics of it in the end. But finally a lot of poetry can't 
be understood in terms other than its own. Much of the language of 
critical theory attempts to deal with this, usually, as far as I can 
tell, without much success.

Mark

At 03:22 PM 7/3/2009, you wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Mark Weiss<junction at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > A good place to start would be the Rothenberg
> > and Joris Poems for the Millennium, in two volumes.
> > Don't skip the first volume, which runs to
> > 1950--the foundations of much of what's
> > followed is in it. And it's a lot of
> > fun.
>
>I've eyed this set before. sounds like it's time to pick it up.
>
>Tangentially, have you (and anyone else) seen the _American Hybrid_
>anthology? I find the area it proposes to cover-- the porous borders
>between these poetries-- interesting, not least because I have hopes
>it will help me figure some of this out.
>
>c
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