- listening to a podcast called Jordan Jesse Go, which is 2 guys talking, mostly. they are funny, often unexpectedly so. in the most recent episode they mention a teacher they had at UC Santa Clara, or whatever it is exactly called. said teacher was Kasey Mohammad, whom they describe as strange but interesting. hey, I almost know Kasey, beyond rep, from being on the Flarf list... in a similar vein, Stephen King mentions Creeley and Olson in his novels. the world of poetry is so small...
- in another podcast, from iTunes U, actually, is a reading given by Lisa Robertson. I have not read much of her work so that is fine. thing is, Elizabeth Willis gave an atrocious intro. the atrocity of which I speak concerns the stodgy academic talkspeak she employus. it is not gibberish that she speaks, but a stultifying overlay. is poetry indeed such a code of segregation? the4 lecture by Harold Bloom that I have mentioned here was a pleasure to me because he revealed his pleasure in the works of poetry. Willis' intro had the makings of a bad lecture, a congestion of words around but somehow not in a subject. let's not do that sort of thing, k?
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
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I want to be clear: we LOVED Kasey Mohammad. He was even on our show once, offering his highly educated literary perspective on some Backstreet Boys fan poetry we found on the internet. Thanks for the kind words, either way.
What a bloody shame... She (Elizabeth Willis) is such a very intesting and good poet, I think.
Alas, though, perhaps our entire generation of cohorts so thoroughly "groomed" and "finished" by Brown and Buffalo are incredibly tedious bores as soon as they demonstrate their allegiance to the Academy and what (PERHAPS) really motivates them -- Careers, Bourgeois Power and Wealth, etc. Who knows... All I know is that THE MAJORITY of the MOST interesting poets and people I have ever met, both contemporary and older, have been those who LEFT the "right," or gave up on, or got discouraged by, or were rejected by (rather than coddled and indoctrinated by) THE universities long before they got Ph.DEED. Silliman, Grenier, Farmer, Hill, Smith Nash, Hejinian, Cole, Gevirtz, for instance...
I HAVE INDEED thoroughly liked and admired her actual poetry Very much, though...
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