Monthly Archives: April 2005

Jordan nails it in this post. A snippet: You have an experience, you want to be able to talk to someone about it. You don’t want that experience to be minimized, set aside, belittled. Therefore, we go around minimizing and … Continue reading →

This is my problem with the “fast food analogy” of art (Josh Corey invoked it regarding his discriminating palate for difficult poetry, I’ve used it to talk about consumption of quality and pop music): it implies a hierarchy that only … Continue reading →

I wonder which comes first: the aesthetic divisions or the combative pressures to explain and justify that which we find compelling? If the Avant Garde crowd is addicted to one kind of positive attribute, like being challenged, does it spring … Continue reading →

In the comments to one of Ron’s latest diatribes about the SOQ and Billy Collins (don’t have to go there to know what he’s going to be complaining about, do you?) there are a variety of attempts to interpret/explain a … Continue reading →

I’m sitting here completely dumbfounded upon reading this comment by Josh Corey: I am simply unlikely to be really satisfied by an encounter with a poem that does not use some aspect of form to problematize its ready reception This … Continue reading →