W, language poet

[Peter Kosenko]

The post was intended to be playful.  The W. "poem" that was posted obviously doesn't measure up even to the worst language poets.  But SOME of the stuff that has come out of the "theoretical" overdrive of "language" poetry never seemed to me to be very effective as poetry/language -- just from my READING of some of it.  Hence my post of the Marjorie Perloff essay.

I'm not sure that "left credentials" necessarily make a good poet.  They don't necessarily make a bad one either.

But I really don't have a developed line on L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poetry.  So I think I'm wasting everyone's time.

By the way, I enjoy joanna bujes' writing and posts.  Maybe someday I'll get time to respond to one.

Peter

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:09:07 -0700


>    Some of the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poets are good lefties. Ron Silliman edited
>Socialist Review for a few years. Charles Bernstein's essays from North
>Point (I think) are a good read. Those two co-wrote a nice travelogue of a
>trip to Russia sometime in the early 90's. Not having been a lit major would
>one consider earlier leftish poets like Zukofsky or Olson precursors?
>   On early 20 C. left poets, btw, see, "Repression and Recovery, " by Cary
>Nelson. Met him once at a VALB event. Looked like William Everson.
>
>