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Unread 05-04-2012, 08:30 AM
Pedro Poitevin Pedro Poitevin is offline
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I don't have time to write a detailed critique, but there is a lot to disagree with in Perloff's essay. I am somewhat bored by the prevailing aesthetic of the elite literary magazines, too, but I'm not sure there is "extraordinary uniformity". If anything (especially if you don't only read the top magazines), the opposite seems true.

I have a less favorable opinion of John Cage than Don has, but perhaps a more favorable view of Oulipo and some of its modern day successors, like Christian Bök. But conceptual poetry has become too constrained by Kenneth Goldsmith's call to pursue "uncreative writing." (Some of Bök's work is quite creative.)
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