digital emunction » Kent Johnson http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:44:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Top-Selling Twelve Books in Poetry Criticism, 2059 The Ducati and the Tricorn: Coded Syllabics in Frederick Seidel’s Late Love Poems to Marianne Moore [George Van Waters]

Machiavellian Democracy: The Secret History of Steve Evans’s Attention Span [Emma Lazarus]

A Dacha for Everyone: Poetry Magazine, Cultural Corporatism, and the End…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/11/17/top-selling-twelve-books-in-poetry-criticism-2059/ Part II of Art Critics from the Future Discussing Flarf: From an Interview with Hal Foster, October, 2029 KJ: The phenomenon’s largely forgotten now, but in retrospect, 20-some years since its apogee, how would you regard Flarf?

Foster: Well, the Flarf reduction of post-avant lyrical abstraction to buffoonery, disgust, kitsch, and unembarrassed supercilious mockery was noted, back in…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/11/12/part-ii-of-art-critics-from-the-future-discussing-flarf-from-an-interview-with-hal-foster-october-2029/ Poets on TV

I noted in the comments thread in response to Don Share, under the post on Hilda Morley–don’t ask me how the thread wound its way to such–that Robert Pinsky (whom Don refers to as “Plotus,” introducing a comment by said…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/11/09/poets-on-tv/ Let Us Name the Most Unjustly and Bizarrely Forgotten U.S. Poet of the 20th Century Hilda Morley.

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/11/03/let-us-name-the-most-unjustly-and-bizarrely-forgotten-us-poet-of-the-20th-century/ Monuments I was just reading an essay on Robert Burns in the current NYRB, wherein it is reported there are more statues of Burns in the United States than of any American poet.

I’m all for lovely Scotland…

But how’d that happen?…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/21/monuments/ Blackface and the Poetry Foundation?  
“[John Barr] is in fact an extraordinary man, both a poet of passion and the most delicate workmanship, and a man of the material world, especially the world of finance and diplomacy–where, I dare say, passion and delicate workmanship are…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/19/blackface-and-the-poetry-foundation-on-john-barrs-grace-an-epic-poem/ Official Verse Culture The National Book Award Finalists for Poetry, 2009:

Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press)
Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books)
Carl Phillips, Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval (U. of Pittsburgh
Press)
Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
(U. of California…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/16/official-verse-culture/ Calling All Radicals with Proper Ontology Apparently this is getting some buzz and traction, annoying some “bipartisan” nerves:

Sign on!

(Am I the only straight guy here with a horrible crush on Rachel Maddow?)

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/15/calling-all-radicals-with-proper-ontology/ Conceptual Chef?

http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/Fake-TV-chef-given-porridge/article-1232320-detail/article.html

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/13/conceptual-chef/ The New British School

I’ve been having some exchange the past couple months with Keston Sutherland, the brilliant young UK poet. We’re working on something together and chatting about this and that in the process.

Some critics, both here in U.S. and in UK,…

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