David Lynch

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Charles Brown wrote:
>
>>But I want to ask , and I am not being snotty, what are the 
>>standards that make Pound's or Stevens' poetry good ?
>
>Call me an aesthete and a formalist, but freshly beautiful use of 
>language, and emotional and/or intellectual complexity. What makes 
>so much "political" art bad is that it recycles cliches - that it's 
>painfully earnest and straightforward. Tell the truth, but tell it 
>slant, as Emily Dickinson said.
>
>Doug

Isn't David Lynch a cliche who does things with cliches?  He did so 
well in _Eraserhead_ and _Blue Velvet_, but the rest of his works are 
tedious.
-- 
Yoshie

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