Saturday 6 April 2013

Poseur Alert

"Boy oh boy. It's really scary to see how conservative poet Ange Mlinko has become. She used to be one of us."

Kenneth Goldsmith exposes the group-think the avant-garde are always at pains to deny, and confirms what "conservative" critics everywhere know to be their only sin: independent thought.

1 comment:

Jesse said...

The sad thing is that irrespective of where you stand, this retort is undeniably hilarious:

http://mainstreampoetry.blogspot.ca/2013/04/normal-0-0-1-1115-6357-pi-52-12-7806-10.html

Especially this:

Ezra Pound “was an axe,/ Chen was an axe, I am an axe/ And my son a handle/ Let's just keep using axes/ even if better tools are available/ and let's let the axes /grow as dull as possible."