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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>It was the Russian Formalist critics who first noted that one of the historic roles of art &#8211; and one of art&#8217;s inexorable drivers toward incessant, ongoing change &#8211; is to incorporate new aspects of society into the art itself. Without which any genre would very quickly lose much of its connectedness with the life of the community from which it springs. Indeed, in poetry, the refusal of this function in favor of a defensive conventionality is perhaps the most serious weakness of the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>School</span></st1:PlaceType><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Quietude</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, the fundamental absence, even a form of denial, right at the spot where a heart should beat. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>One clear instance of poetry bringing in new language into the place of the poem was Ed Friedman&#8217;s 1979 project, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/tsfdr"><span style='color:black'>The Telephone Book</span></a>, </i>which presented, verbatim, a month and a half of transcribed telephone calls by the then-director of the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church. The culture of phone etiquette &#8211; this was before you could actually who was calling before they identified themselves &#8211; combined with the elements of Friedman&#8217;s life &#8211; not just poetry, but also his participation in the controversial do-it-yourself therapy movement called co-counseling &#8211; to yield a text that edged up against, say, Bernadette Mayer&#8217;s works of memory &amp; reconstruction on the one side, and social codes so banal that they were all but &#8220;invisible&#8221; because of being
&#8220;too boring to notice.&#8221; The result was a brave &amp; wonderful book &amp; consciously a challenge to read, at once formal &amp; painfully intimate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>All of these same elements, save for the co-counseling, are invoked again in a new work, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Inbox (a reverse memoir), </i>by <a href="http://humanverb.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:black'>Noah Eli Gordon</span></a>, forthcoming from <a href="http://www.blazevox.org/"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>BlazeVOX</span></span></a> books. I&#8217;ve been asked if I&#8217;d blurb it, but I think this book is too important to let pass with just a few words for a rear cover. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Inbox </i>is exactly what its title suggests, a work of art that includes email received by the author, albeit written entirely by his correspondents, over a period of time. By way of introduction, Gordon uses his permission letter, which reads (in part): <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Dear Friends<span class=GramE>,</span><br> 
I recently completed a book project that includes<br>
some of your writing and wanted to both tell you<br>
about it and ask your permission to [attempt to]<br>
publish the work. I&#8217;m currently calling the manuscript<br>
INBOX, which should send up the requisite bells and<br>
whistles, 55 pages of uninterrupted prose that <br>
constitutes a kind of temporal autobiography, well<br>
conceptually anyway. I thought it would be interesting<br>
to see what would happen if I were to take the body-<br>
text of every email that was addressed specifically to<br>
me [nothing forwarded or from any listserv] currently<br>
in my inbox [over 200] and let all of the voices collide<br>
into one continuous text. The work is arranged in<br>
reverse chronology, mirroring the setup of my email<br>
program. I removed everyone&#8217;s name and any phrase<br>
with which they&#8217;d closed their email; additionally, I<br>
removed any specific address mentioned. I&#8217;m really<br>
pleased with the results, as it sculpts the space<br>
between the every detritus of dinner plans to<br>
discussions of fonts and notes from long lost friends.<br>
To be honest, as I&#8217;m a person pretty free of drama<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
the bulk of the work is boring, but intentionally so, in<br>
the generative, ambient way that Tan Lin writes<br>
about, well, one would hope anyhow. It&#8217;s the collision<br>
of voices that makes the work compelling, at least to<br>
me. The only thing is&#8230; I didn&#8217;t write any of it; you did!<br>
Of course there&#8217;s something awfully self-aggrandizing<br>
to a project like this, and I&#8217;m fully aware of it, which is<br>
why I&#8217;m thinking of it as an autobiography. I don&#8217;t think<br>
it would be right for me to show any of the<br>
manuscript to anyone until I&#8217;ve received everyone&#8217;s<br>
permission to share the work. Let me just say this<span class=GramE>:</span><br>
there&#8217;s not really anything all that incriminating in<br>
here, and most of the gossip is pretty bland. I still<br>
have many of the emails from which the text was<br>
created [although not all] so I&#8217;d be willing to send folks<br>
copies of whatever they&#8217;ve written that I do still have,<br>
if need be. Although, to be honest, I think the integrity<br>
of the project is kind of dependant on folks NOT being<br>
aware of the make up of their contribution, as the <br>
voices dissolves into one another without any <br>
transition. Also let me say that if I do end up doing<br>
anything with the text, it will not include anyone&#8217;s <br>
name, outside of those mentioned in the body text of<br>
messages; besides my name, there is no author<br>
attribution within the manuscript. Most of the text is<br>
dinky <span class=SpellE>pobiz</span> stuff, me hashing out the shape of<br>
chapbook manuscripts I&#8217;ve published, or will publish<span class=GramE>,</span><br>
directions to readings, etc. It is not at all my <span class=GramE>intension <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160;</span></i></span><br>
to take advantage of or disrupt anyone&#8217;s confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This is a remarkably accurate description of the book itself, tho, like <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Telephone Book, inbox </i>somewhat <span class=SpellE>fetishizes</span> its source material by printing it pretty much verbatim from start to finish whereas I think you would get a truer picture of the actual language of email (or of phone conversation) precisely by breaking it apart &#8211; sentences seem an obvious point &#8211; and scrambling them, so that you look primarily (if not only) to the language &amp; not all these miniature narratives. Will Noah accept this invite? Will the proofs for that chapbook be adequate? Etc. I&#8217;m reminded that when Kathy Acker decided to focus on the juridical language of the courts system, she didn&#8217;t adopt the dramatized fictive canon of Perry Mason et al, but used the actual language of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>in re van <span class=SpellE>Geldern</span> </i>as her source material, while also substituting in the names of friends (and by that fact, characters from other sections of the same novel). Acker&#8217;s strategy is not unlike Harry <span class=SpellE>Partch&#8217;s</span> music composed on a scale of his making on instruments he invented from materials &amp; objects that already exist in the world. Friedman &amp; Gordon more or less give you the raw objects instead. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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one finds it possible almost primarily because of the &#8220;guess the writer&#8221; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>roman a clef </i>element in the work. Who wrote, for example, on the very second page of the <span class=GramE>work:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>I&#8217;m writing to invite you to read in the Poetry Project 2004-2005 Monday Night Series at St. Mark&#8217;s Church in NY on </span><st1:date Year="2004" Day="24" Month="1"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>January 24, 2004</span></st1:date><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>, </span><st1:time Minute="0" Hour="20"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>8 p.m.</span></st1:time><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> I know the </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>New York</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> audience is eager to see you here &#8211; and to course I&#8217;ve seen your work quite a bit, and admire your range (among other things). In short, I&#8217;d love to have you read! Details: You would be paid $50 for the reading itself, and unfortunately we can&#8217;t afford to cover travel costs (something we&#8217;re hoping to work on in the future), but I hope you can make it (it&#8217;s not too much from </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Amherst</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>, yeah?). Additionally, your reading time can run from approx. 20-40 minutes, up to you. Your reading partner will be Barbara Cole. If you&#8217;re not available for 1/24, let me know as soon as you can, and we&#8217;ll work something else out. I&#8217;ll also need a full address from you, so we can send a &#8220;contract&#8221; out. The Poetry Project&#8217;s archaic and long-winded way of welcoming. :) Thanks very much and hope to be in touch soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:1.0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Have you worked as a DJ? What relationship do you see<span class=GramE>,</span> if any, between the worlds of publishing books &amp; putting out music? Silliman&#8217;s Blog tells me today that you just won the <span class=SpellE>Sawtooth</span> Poetry Prize. What manuscript is in the works on that front? Can you talk a bit about your
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">I was one part amazed, and one part appalled, to read the <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2003_03_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2390173045">recent
entry</a> featuring the disagreement between Noah Gordon and the organizers of
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Where to start? Well, how about with what the hell does
the "aesthetics of dissent" mean? That's the mother of all straw men
if I've ever met her. Is the implication of the use of that term that the
organizers were trying to make (or were the unwitting victims of, in which case
policing seems like the wrong, yet perfectly passive aggressive, term) firm categories
about what kind of poetry is acceptable to protest the war, and what isn't?
Come on, does that really seem plausible, or to the point? Isn't it more likely
that they were doing the best they can to hold an event with a bunch of readers
for an audience probably not used to listening to poetry, and making the
judgment (to which Noah is of course, since we still live in a democracy,
entitled to disagree) that his poem wasn't going to work in this particular
situation?<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Policing the aesthetics of dissent?" Holy
unnecessary jargon, Batman! It seems that the organizers were pretty clear, not
to mention polite, in expressing that they just thought that Noah's poem wasn't
going to work in that context, because of its "density" (i.e. the more
elusive relationship it has than your usual anti-war poem to protesting the
war). Agree or disagree, but they are the ones who are responsible for throwing
the event, and making it work, and they honestly seemed to think the poem
wasn't appropriate for the venue or situation, which seems like a very
reasonable thing to think about given the fact that this is not a poetry
reading for Noah, but a WAR PROTEST. If I wanted to get up and read a ten page
poem about a wilting flower as an allegory for this war's effect on democracy,
I think the organizers would be pretty well within their rights to tell me to
go find something a little less brilliant to read.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">And holy naked act of self promotion, Batman! Call my a cynic,
but I don't think that the fact that at least one of these parties (the other
being dragged in clearly against his will) is willing, if not eager, to share
his correspondence (not to mention his poem) proves anything about anyone's
"best possible intentions." For, lo and behold, in the guise of a
discussion on the "aesthetics of dissent," we end up discussing ...
Noah's poem! I also love the repeated reference to Sean Bishop as a
"student" organizing a reading against the war. Whose student? <span class="GramE">Noah's?</span> Noah Gordon also happens to be a student, of the MFA
Writing Program at <span class="SpellE">UMass</span>, which is a very fine thing
to be, and certainly doesn't stop anyone from being a good poet and publishing
worthy poems long before getting a degree. Yet I have the inescapable feeling
that what really pisses Noah off (in a polite and patronizing way) is that a
student had the gall to judge his work, or at least its potential effect on an
audience. Frankly, the politics of that situation seem a lot more hierarchical
and problematic than worrying about anyone "policing the aesthetics of
dissent."<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">This is particularly evident in the part of Noah's letter
which discusses the abstraction of the war. This just seems like a clever point
to make, with at best tenuous relevance. Is the fact that people in the U.S.
tend to apprehend the war as an "abstraction" (i.e. something that's
not "real," but just an idea, which in a way seems the exact opposite
of the problem -- people aren't thinking ENOUGH about the ideas and rationales
for this war, and just accepting the given terms) somehow a justification for
Noah reading an "abstract" poem, whatever that means? What a weird
kind of mimeticism.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">And does Noah really accept the definition of his poem as
"abstract" (which it isn't, as you correctly point out)? Those of us
who teach know that when a student says a poem is "abstract," what
they really mean is, "I don't know what you're talking about, and/or why
you've bothered to say it." It's mainly a word to hide the word "bad"
behind. In this case, to give the organizers credit, what I think they meant
was that they felt the relationship between the anti-war sentiment and the
imagery and general mechanisms of the poem wasn't clear enough for the
situation of this particular reading.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">They may be right or wrong in their judgment (I personally
think there's some good stuff in the poem, but it's kind of histrionic and
self-righteous ... it seems to treat the whole war as a personal problem for
the poet, which is the thing that makes writing political poetry really <span class="SpellE">really</span> hard). But here's the real point: if the motivation
to read at a war protest is, in fact, to protest the war -- and not to read our
latest poems to a lucky, albeit captive, audience -- then I would think that
even if the organizers were so horribly misguided as to incorrectly judge the
possible effect one of our brilliant poems would have on said audience (which
by the way, they have taken the time, responsibility, and trouble to assemble),
then perhaps we could put up with their lamentable short-sightedness and
stupidity and figure out another way to put our queer or otherwise shoulders to
the wheel.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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poem, but not even to attend, makes his whole motivation more than a little
suspect. I don't want to sound crude, but what's more important to Noah: Noah's
poem, or protesting the war?<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Well, I can think of other reasons why a war protest in </span></tt><st1:city><st1:place><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Northampton</span></tt></st1:place></st1:city><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> might be a waste of time ... talk
about preaching to the converted. If there is a poor sucker living in that town
<span class="GramE">who</span> actually is in favor of the war, I almost feel
sorry for him, if he hasn't already been garroted by a hemp friendship
necklace. So one may ask, if one is still reading, why am I wasting my time
with this?<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Because first of all, as should be obvious, I disagree
with everything that Noah has said, and just find the hypocrisy and
self-righteousness really annoying. Also, when I see a poet self-righteously
complain in a public forum about whether his poem was suppressed or not, under
the guise of defending the right of poetry to be able to do whatever it is that
he thinks his poem is doing, while bombs are about to fall on Iraq, as a poet I
feel embarrassed. And third, because poets ought <span class="GramE">not</span>
sit with our arms folded pretending that all poetry is equally apprehendable
(regardless or difficulty of syntax, or unfamiliarity of imagery, etc.), and
that anyone who can't see that is a cretin. On the contrary, it's our job to
try to help educate and prepare our readers for the next new thing. The way we
do that is by making an implicit contract with them: if you promise to listen
carefully, I will promise to make something that hangs together in some way,
and (here's what's important here) exists for a reason other than to promote
myself.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">To turn this situation into a discussion on aesthetics, or
the nature of dissent, seems disingenuous and self-absorbed, which is
particularly upsetting given the stakes. For whatever reason, the organizers
didn't want Noah to read his poem. I don't think they're suppressing dissent in
the least: Noah could have read a different poem, or (god forbid) a poem by
another poet, one that would have been more easily apprehendable to the
audience at this reading. Or he could have just gone to the reading and clapped
when other poets read their poems. And if he thinks that this particular poem
is such a great way to protest the war, why doesn't he get up and read it in
the middle of </span></tt><st1:street><st1:address><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">Main Street</span></tt></st1:address></st1:street><tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">?<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">It seems evident that there is a time and a place to fight
this <span class="GramE">battle,</span> and a war protest is neither. I realize
that with this last sentence I am going to open myself up to all kinds of
attacks ("when IS the right time to defend poetry?" "<span class="GramE">what's</span> the real battle we're fighting here?" "<span class="GramE">isn't</span> the struggle for clarity of language, versus easy
propaganda?"). In fact, I've listened to "My Back Pages"
probably too many times, as have we all ... here's to hoping we can all be a
little bit older, if not wiser, than that now.<o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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wasn't going to work in that context, because of its "density" (i.e.
the more elusive relationship it has than your usual anti-war poem to
protesting the war). <o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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include Gordon&#8217;s text &#8211; is that the claim of density or elusiveness patently
isn&#8217;t true. And, if it isn&#8217;t, then the rest of Zapruder&#8217;s argument more or less
dissolves into smoke. For the claim to be true, the </span></tt><st1:city><st1:place><tt><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Northampton</span></tt></st1:place></st1:city><tt><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
audience would have to be not merely focused more on the war than on
aesthetics, but functionally illiterate. <o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I agree completely with Zapruder &#8211; &amp; I think
Gordon agrees also &#8211; that stopping the war is far more important than any
poetry reading. But I&#8217;m concerned about a practice that would edit out a poem
that would not have been either dense or particularly elusive at a protest for
World War I. What bothers me about it is how neatly this dumbing down of
density fits into a broader pattern of behavior that dates back decades now, of
treating progressive writing, from the modernists to the current post-avant
community, as though it were difficult &#8211; &amp; thereby excludable &#8211; when, in
fact, that is not the case. <o:p></o:p></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Such behavior is part &amp; parcel of the (not very)
benign neglect that underlies not merely the sort of editorial malfeasance one
associates with the likes of a Helen Vendler, but even, alas, with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/">Poets
<span class="GramE">Against</span> the War</a> </i>project. If one sees the <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2003_02_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2389142762">broader
spectrum of poets</a> who have contributed to its website, the poetry that is
part of its official &#8220;<a href="http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/chapbook.asp">chapbook</a>&#8221;
is notably skewed toward the school of quietude &#8211; the principle exceptions are </span></tt><st1:personname><tt><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Robert
 Creeley</span></tt></st1:personname><tt><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, Phil Whalen* &amp; a pair of
Beat generation chestnuts, Lawrence Ferlinghetti &amp; Diane <span class="SpellE">Di</span> Prima. Even the project&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/poemsoftheday.asp">Poem of
the Day</a> </i>selection, intended to bring out a broader representation than
the <span class="GramE">chapbook&#8217;s &#8221;</span></span></tt><span style="font-family: Arial;">selection of especially powerful poems and statements by prominent poets,&#8221;
to date has managed only one poet generally associated with the post-avant
world, <a href="http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=9052">Kent
Johnson</a>. We wonder if the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poets <span class="GramE">Against</span> the War </i>editors recognize that Margaret Wise
Brown, the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Goodnight Moon</i>,
which Johnson&#8217;s poem gently parodies, saw herself as <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/culture/culture-wood010502.shtml">an
active follower of Gertrude Stein</a> &amp; was writing within a framework of
progressive educational theory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This sort of intellectual
bad faith has become so widely &amp; deeply associated with the broader school
of quietude that it, in fact, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">always needs to be publicly pointed out</i> </b>whenever
&amp; wherever it shows up. Not only is such erasure profoundly anti-democratic
&amp; inherently dishonest in &amp; of itself, the process reinforces &#8211; just as
the establishmentarian poetics of the school of quietude do &#8211; the larger social
forces that argue always against social change &amp; for a traditionalism whose
sole justification is inertia<span class="GramE">.*</span>* From the perspective
of the poets who commit such misdemeanors of editing, this dumbing down is
merely self-contradictory and self-defeating behavior. For the poets who are
consistently disappeared by this process, it&#8217;s invariably a painful reminder of
the structural inequalities at the heart of the &#8220;American way.&#8221; <tt><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></tt></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">** It&#8217;s no
accident that the great antiwar poet of the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">Vietnam</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;"> era was Allen Ginsberg &amp; not,
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK3"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">A letter with some correspondence &amp; a question from Noah
Eli Gordon:<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dear Ron,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Since it seems like yr
blog has become somewhat of a forum as of late, I figured I forward you this
email exchange and ask your opinion on the aesthetics of dissent...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I sent four poems,
including the following, the most straight-forward of the bunch, to a student
organizing a </span></span><a href="http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Poets <span class="GramE">Against</span> the War</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> reading in MA:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">a</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> black
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Decision can</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> still the clock&#8217;s hands,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Will staring at a solar-eclipse burn the <span class="GramE">retinas,</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reflection in a puddle safe<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Will the rats grow too <span class="GramE">large</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">to</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
squeeze out from under the floorboards<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Will <span class="SpellE">Sacajawea</span> haul her <span class="GramE">child</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">out</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> of the
prison of our new coin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Will she still point toward the <span class="GramE">river</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">what</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
forgiveness feels like,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">now</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> I&#8217;d
know to take my finger<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">&amp; trace the mortar<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">between</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the
bricks<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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abandoned fire station.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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reply:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Noah,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I'm happy to tell you that we have sorted
through the submissions for the "Poetry in Protest" event, and some
of your writing has been approved for the reading. Because of the density of
most of your writing, we suggest that you only read a small piece of "a
black mirror for the capital." We would like you to read only the first
part of the poem, ending with "a coat stitched from the <span class="SpellE">strikepads</span> of empty matchbooks". We felt the rest of
it, while good, was a bit too abstract for the setting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>We are asking all participating poets to
be at the West <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Lecture Hall of Franklin
Paterson Hall by </span></span><st1:time hour="18" minute="45"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">6:45</span></span></st1:time><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> on the night of the
reading, Thursday, March 6. We will get you seated up front at that time, and
give you the details of how the reading will proceed (we haven't figured it all
out yet). There will be a <span class="SpellE">mic</span> for you to use in case
you're a quiet reader. You are encouraged to read slowly, and if you like you
may say a few words about how you feel about the war before you begin your
poem. We want this to be a relaxed and personal event, which is one of the
reasons we opted for one of the smaller lecture halls. <span class="GramE">Looking
forward to seeing you there.</span> Email or call me with any questions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">And here was my reply to
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Dear Sean,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Let me say that it's
great that you've been working on putting together this reading. It's an
important event, important not because it gives folks a chance to read, rather
in that it's able to offer poets a forum to publicly show their dissent against
the atrocious policies of our current government; however, I'm a bit taken
aback at your policing of the aesthetics of dissent. I'd completely understand
if it were merely a question of time constraints, but to use a phrase like
"too abstract for the setting," is problematic for me on two
accounts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Firstly, it seems to me
to be a judgment not of the effectiveness of the poem to convey whatever it's
attempting to convey, but a judgment of the notion of audience. I take it to
mean that you want to make sure everyone "understands" the poems,
that everyone is able to leave each poem with the sense that, yes, that poem is
against the war, that yes, I get it, which is exactly the problem of war: it's
not that simple. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Secondly, war is just
about the most abstract thing to us Americans that there is. We won't see any
of it on <span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE">tv</span></span>. Our lives will go
on as usual, a bit foggy perhaps with the idea that people are dying somewhere.
War really is the ultimate abstraction. That said, I wanted to let you know
that I just wouldn't feel comfortable reading in such a setting and have
decided that I won't attend the event. I hope it goes well, and again, it's
great that you've been working to bring the event into existence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yours,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I'm just wondering where
you stand on the issue of poetry of dissent, what is poetry of dissent? It seems
like the last issue of the Poetry <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Project newsletter took
some of your comments out of context, so perhaps you could address the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">yrs</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">I asked Sean Bishop for permission
to run his letter here, which he immediately gave with a couple of tiny edits,
also suggesting that I should include his response to Noah:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I'm sorry our decision upsets you, but I
rather resent your remark about "policing the aesthetics of dissent."
We had to make editorial decisions. These decisions were not always based
entirely on the quality of the work (whatever that word means.) We weren't
judging your capabilities as a poet, but yes, we were making some aesthetic
decisions. The length of your poem was the largest factor in this. A short
abstract poem can be appropriate for a reading setting, but yours is quite
long, and we suspected the audience would be entirely lost by the beginning of
the third page/section. Paul and I both felt that the piece began to lose its
grounding after the first part, which is entirely capable of standing alone as
a poem, and which is really quite striking all by itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>You wrote that you thought this was less a
judgment of the effectiveness of the poem to convey its message, and more a
judgment of the audience. In truth, both are true. We don't want everyone to
"get" what every poem means, or to know with certainty that a poem is
"against the war." We do want them to understand the bare bones of
the poem: what is it talking about? <span class="GramE">where</span> is it? <span class="GramE">how</span> does one image lead to another or engage in dialogue
with another? <span class="GramE">the</span> messages insinuated from the imagery
and language of a poem do not need to be comprehended immediately, but for the
purposes of a verbal reading, we felt a certain sense of continuity was
necessary. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Yes, war is an abstract concept for
Americans. No, the war is not simple. Perhaps I should have used a better word
than "abstract" to explain your poem, but the only other word I could
think of was "convoluted", which sounds like an attack. I'm sorry you
won't be attending the event. You seem to feel that we were searching for a
particular aesthetic, and anyone who didn't fit into that aesthetic was
rejected, which simply isn't true. We have formalists, slam poets, and everyone
in between reading at this event. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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think both Gordon &amp; Bishop are motivated here by the best possible
intentions &#8211; and their mutual willingness to share this correspondence reflects
that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Having said that, the poem &amp;
correspondence itself raises questions. While I think it is possible enough to
argue that the poem loses a little focus in its third section, the second &#8211;
clearly grounded in part by Nick <span class="SpellE">Ut&#8217;s</span> infamous 1972 </span></span><a href="http://www.transom.org/talk/photos/200108.ut.napalm.jpg"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">photograph</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> of nine-year-old </span></span><a href="http://www.iht.com/IHT/TB/00/tb062900a.html"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kim <span class="SpellE">Phuc</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">
with her clothes burned off by napalm &#8211; can hardly be called either abstract or
convoluted. It&#8217;s one of the most widely recognized visual images associated
with the atrocities of war. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">What I do hear in Bishop&#8217;s words,
especially in his second letter, is a question of intelligibility &amp; yet if
I look at the text of Gordon&#8217;s poem, no such problem even remotely exists. So I
go back to Bishop&#8217;s own words, noting that he argues that the event would have
&#8220;<span class="GramE">formalists,</span> slam poets and everyone in between.&#8221;
That&#8217;s an interesting phrase, precisely because it describes only a narrow
segment of the literary community, maybe 25 percent of the possible range. My
immediate association was to the way in which television, &amp; PBS in
particular, has tended to represent the political left through people like Mark
Shields, a Democrat in name only who positions <span class="GramE">himself</span>
well to the right of center. Thus PBS can have debates between the center and
far right and pretend to be representing the entire spectrum of ideas. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bishop underscores my association in
his second letter when he suggests that a reader would not get &#8220;the bare bones
of the poem.&#8221; To not get the bare bones suggests a reading problem as well as
fairly stunning lack of historical memory. If anything, the second section&#8217;s
association of Vietnam&#8217;s brutality with other instances of devastation &#8211; I
think it&#8217;s possible to associate the &#8220;gutted chassis of a pickup&#8221; with both the
first Gulf War &amp; the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack, an
ambiguity I believe Gordon intends: the final image of the &#8220;abandoned fire
station&#8221; is being set up this much in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bishop&#8217;s phrase reminds me of all
the times I&#8217;ve heard language poetry &#8211; I&#8217;m not suggesting that Gordon is in any
way a langpo or even post-langpo &#8211; described as difficult or unintelligible or,
in the words of Robert Swards immortal review of Clark Coolidge&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flag Flutter &amp; U.S. Electric</i>,
printed in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry</i> back in March,
1967, &#8220;a psychedelic outpouring,&#8221; &#8220;verbal hop-scotch,&#8221; &amp; the ever popular
&#8220;chic, trivial piling up of images.&#8221; Bishop doesn&#8217;t go this far with Gordon,
but he doesn&#8217;t need to. The problem in some ways reflects </span></span><st1:personname><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kit
 Robinson</span></span></st1:personname><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">&#8217;s wise observation that the only
people who ever found language poetry difficult were a group of graduate
students who no longer knew how to read. Having read my own work in the Maximum
Security Library at Folsom, I know that Robinson&#8217;s take is generally accurate &#8211;
there&#8217;s nothing difficult about such writing unless one brings preconceptions
about poetry to the text that render all but a very narrow range fairly opaque.
I&#8217;m going to test this again tomorrow, when I teach seven fifth-grade classes
at a suburban middle school here on the </span></span><st1:place><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Main
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">School environments of course are
notorious &#8211; with reason &#8211; for their lack of openness to the new. One can simply
read the reviews of the student John Ashbery in the archives of the </span></span><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/archives.aspx"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">Harvard Crimson</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">,
an online archive that goes back to the 19th century. But at least Ashbery
&amp; Koch were noted as student writers there &#8211; Creeley appears to have been
the invisible undergrad. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have no idea what Bishop&#8217;s
aesthetic commitments might be, whether he positions himself in that tiny
conceptual slice between slam poetics &amp; formalism &#8211; two genre that depend
mostly on the same literary devices, contextualized differently &#8211; or in the far
broader terrain where the bulk of American poetry has thrived for the past two
centuries. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">With regard to Gordon&#8217;s final
question of the forum in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry
Project Newsletter</i>, I&#8217;ve heard about the forum from several people &#8211; one
contributor wrote me an apology &#8211; but I actually haven&#8217;t seen the issue, the
first one I seem to have missed in several years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">On a more positive note, the </span></span><a href="http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=7823#453065892"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;">poem</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK3;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I contributed to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poets <span class="GramE">Against</span> the
War</i> finally has appeared on its database, missing only its title (sigh).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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