The kind of crap that passes for “poetry news” when you’ve been handed about a billion dollars to promote poetry.
I must admit being bowled over, though, by the brilliant critic and theorist Charles Bernstein‘s trenchant observation that the “great [Robert] Creeley theme” was “everyday life.”
But—!—that’s my theme! In fact, I’ve been collecting refrigerator notes for years, looking toward a posthumous volume to be entitled The Complete Shopping Lists of Joseph Hutchison….
Professor Strangelove it is.<br /><br />(I broke up laughing at "Me Real Cool."
the Bernstein characterization of Creeley is interesting— I wrote a short note yesterday sort of saying the same thing, and added a p.s. today after linking from you—<br /><br />http://knottprosepo.blogspot.com/2011/06/reconciliation.html<br /><br />….
Vassilis—Kenny G as Poet Laureate of Urinetown. I love it!<br /><br />Ed—Is there any finer word than "honeysuckle"?<br /><br />Conrad—Had Bernstein thought to update Gwendolyn Brooks, he might write…<br /><br /><b>ME REAL COOL</b><br /><br /> <i>The Bespectacled Professor.<br /> Alone at the Bar at the White Dog Cafe.</i><br /><br />Me real cool. Me<br />teach school. Me<br /
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Ed,<br /><br />I swear: before I scrolled down and saw your comment I was thinking the same thing. The cool person with the shades is walking POETRY.<br /><br />Bernstein looks like a fool, playing at being 'cool'. It's bloody obvious
the gal with the neat High Tech sun glasses and the afro <br /> now THAT's pure ugh …. poe-tree !<br /><br /><br />K.<br /><br /><br />there's a little bird<br />in the honey-suckle <br />all aflutter<br /><br /><br />in the bush<br /><br />outside my window<br />all a-flutter<br />a little bird<br /><br />I am sure it s up to<br />no good
URINE POETRY TROUBLE<br /><br /><br />if you don’t know that<br />kenny—<br /><br />as in gold<br />wordsmith—<br /><br />is going <br /><br />to appropriate <br />the Creeley seg-<br /><br />ment titles to de-<br />compose<br /> <br />his next magnum o<br />piss.