[New-Poetry] litmag watch: shampoo

[Judy Prince]

Pore Bob.  Either response he's likely to give will not work.
Moving right along, and aiming my remarks to Michael, Chris, and Catherine:

I, too, saw some fine places and unity in Brian Teare's poem.  Wayne
Koestenbaum's poems're difficult to unveil what with his gramma/father/self
gender confusion and his not having a penis.

I did find Jennifer Hairdryer's last of the 3 poems [as distinct from her
first 2] fascinatingly successful for what most contemporary poems are
believed to need to demonstrate.  Some of you may guess that I feel that
"chopped line prose", which is what most contemporary poems are, is at the
foot of my hesitation in more enthusiastically rating her poem.  "Chopped
line prose", to me, does not mean  arbitrary line endings, though that's the
superficial look of it.  Rather, "chopped line prose" demonstrates the
poet's inability to make, or the nonrecognition of, rhythms.  And without
rhythm, there's no poetry.

Best,

Judy


2009/6/4 Michael Snider <mandolin at mikesnider.org>

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
> wrote:
> > Chris Lott wrote:
> >>
> >> The question is, Bob, do you find Blowdryer's poetry interesting? My
> >> assessment of the poems in the Shampoo link: pretty freakin' boring.
> >
> > Didn't find any poems of hers but have already forgotten what the first
> > prose piece was about.  The second I tired of after six or seven
> paragraphs.
> >  She seems accurately to catch a contemporary young airhead's psychology
> and
> > diction but what's the point?  Who cares?
> >
> > --Bob
>
> Just a mild tease from me, Bob -- aside from its quality why isn't her
> work poetry? She says it is, and the "prose poem" is a recognized
> genre.
>
> As it happens, I agree - it's neither poetry nor interesting.
>
> But since there's been so much talk of penises, what about Wayne
> Koestenbaum's contribution here:
> http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooThirtyfive/koestenbaum.html
>
>
> I did kind of like these from Brian Teare (
> http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooThirtyfive/teare.html ), but for
> the most part I was just awfully glad no trees were pulped for
> Shampoo.
>
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