Comments on: What’s In & What’s Out -2008 (Part I)

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:54:48 +0000

Major–
Out: Eugene, Oregon; In: the Old Sincerity

By: Sam Amadon

Sam Amadon — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:45:51 +0000

I’m pretty sure the only way the Pats are in anything is with an Asterisk.

By: Simon DeDeo

Simon DeDeo — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:06:42 +0000

Hey Major –
I’m quite aware — I say this in the opening line of my comment — that you’re presenting this as humor.
What really struck me about the piece is how it shows our notion of the poet has changed — how she’s been absorbed into a unit of commercial culture. As I said, back fifty or a hundred years ago, the joke would have been a condescending one — now it seems nastier and self-directed.
Simon
PS: I totally love the L-word. It’s interesting how Anne Carson was used there — in a very “old school” fashion, with Marina playing a kind of tormentor-muse to Jenny, the poet is given a kind of elite and etherial status. The way it’s played is that the poet is an interruption and not, as in a tired/wired list, a continuation of consumption by other means.

By: Jennifer Bartlett

Jennifer Bartlett — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:36:12 +0000

Hey Major,
You should come hear Andrea Baker and I read to Robin’s tonight. We’re both kind-of in.
I thought Jorie Graham was out? Where is Duluth, NM? I vote for Las Cruces!

By: Major

Major — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:58:29 +0000

Simon,
I get your point, but, um . . . this is so tongue-in-cheek. And if Showtime’s L-word show can appropriate Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet to firm up its sophistication factor, as do many a Hollywood screenwriter over the course of cinematic history, then a little reversal of intentions seems okay. Don’t you think? It’s about tickling the whole funny bone, especially if we have one. Why not?
http://www.slate.com/id/2095317/

By: D.L.

D.L. — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:01:40 +0000

In Out
Cleveland Manhattan
Detroit Brooklyn
Pittsburg Queens
Austin Bronx
Bayonne, NJ Staten Island
texts poetry
books blogs
UBU WEB Poetry Foundation
Rachel Blau DuPlessis Jorie Graham
post-quietude flarf
rack of lamb tapas
jamón serrano prosciutto
Gertrude Stein’s hat Ezra Pound’s beard
flat-coated retrievers American Staffordshire Terriers
effing press Ugly Duckling Presse
Eric Dolphy Arcade Fire
Matthew Ship Bad Plus
Canada France
anarchism Socialism
blueberry smoothies vitamin water
commas periods
bookshelves celebrities
Fanny Howe Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Kevin Davies Robert Hass
touch-and-feel board books iPods
Atelos Norton
Lisa Robertson Anne Carson
Buck Owens Merle Haggard
avant-agrarian New York School
napping poetry readings
free jazz musicals
repetition rhyme
neo-fragmentation New Sentence

By: Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:22:19 +0000

Major,
Sorry, typo, I meant “50 Cent”–the rapper. Who, last we heard from him, was bragging about how his tunes were more amenable to being sold as ring-tones in Europe than other rappers!
Now *that’s* street cred!
S.

By: Aaron Fagan

Aaron Fagan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:23:34 +0000

Poets as beacons of failure is completely in right now!

By: Aaron Fagan

Aaron Fagan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:01:35 +0000

One could say that these plaids will lay to rest the Burberry plaid.
Lest we forget Spaceball One–able to break the speed of light and go into plaid, a completely different dimension of light travel.

By: Jeannine Hall Gailey

Jeannine Hall Gailey — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:43:39 +0000

Au contraire, Major! Robots will always be in! See: Astro-Boy live-action re-make, Robo-Boy poems by Matthea Harvey, and new Futurama episodes with Bender, the loveable robot! Also: solar-powered robots, helper robots, Toyota robots, robot vacuum cleaners.