hmmm, While I understand why Joan Richardson shutdown Susan Howe, to then go on and talk without relief herself seems entirely unfair...perhaps I've misread the situation...
Absolutely love some of these lectures...I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere, this is about the only intelligient conversation I encounter. Thank Gawd for the internet.
my first day at the Graduate Center in 1973, I attended Mandelbaum's Modern Poetry course and was sitting next to Joan Richardson, who was so gorgeous, I was afraid to look at her....
Stevens poetry attracts academics like this one because they use his work to place themselves on stage, for attention, as interpreters. It is a chance for them to gather attention.
Stevens is 'da bomb'--the best 20th century poet with Robert Frost. By the way, Stevens had a bit of a temper--he got into fights with Hemingway and Frost (with the latter no doubt about realist vs. symbolist imagery). The imagery is bizarre--the best American poet dukin it out with the best American novelist. "Papa' won.
wait a minute...are you actually suggesting that Hemingway was in any way remotely the "best American novelist?" I hate to be rude, but, like, are you sure you can actaully READ??
hmmm, While I understand why Joan Richardson shutdown Susan Howe, to then go on and talk without relief herself seems entirely unfair...perhaps I've misread the situation...
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Absolutely love some of these lectures...I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere, this is about the only intelligient conversation I encounter. Thank Gawd for the internet.
Peter Crofts: I feel your pain. Thank you for putting voice to my own frustration.
Couldn't agree more.
my first day at the Graduate Center in 1973, I attended Mandelbaum's Modern Poetry course and was sitting next to Joan Richardson, who was so gorgeous, I was afraid to look at her....
I have been in love with her for 50 years. Her voice broke my heart.
Am I alone in finding Susan Howe's talk obscure?
Stevens poetry attracts academics like this one because they use his work to place themselves on stage, for attention, as interpreters. It is a chance for them to gather attention.
Thank you, this has been added to a playlist...
Stevens is 'da bomb'--the best 20th century poet with Robert Frost. By the way, Stevens had a bit of a temper--he got into fights with Hemingway and Frost (with the latter no doubt about realist vs. symbolist imagery). The imagery is bizarre--the best American poet dukin it out with the best American novelist. "Papa' won.
wait a minute...are you actually suggesting that Hemingway was in any way remotely the "best American novelist?" I hate to be rude, but, like, are you sure you can actaully READ??
Understand your own mind.
Temper fueled by booze.
Stevens is magnificent but is not even the best american poet of the 20th Century. Ezra Pound goes first, followed by some.