Comments on: Check it out!

By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:59:37 +0000

oh, Kent. you haven’t had to know HTML to start a website for about eight years now.

By: Kent Johnson

Kent Johnson — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:15:56 +0000

Rich,
Thanks for the encouragement, and I appreciate it, but I honestly don’t think I have the technical expertise to handle a blog. HTML is ancient Greek, to me…
Jordan,
I’ve been contributing to discussions at Harriet for a number of months now (with very few exceptions, the only place for a long time where I’ve posted comments on the web). The quality and sustained intensity of the exchanges here often surpass anything I’ve encountered in any other poetry forum, frankly. Sometimes there is sharp, good-humored ribbing; sometimes things do get heated. But there is always a discernible context for it, of some kind. Your comment above is the first truly gratuitous flame I think I’ve seen at the blog.
You’re a smart guy, and I for one hope you’ll keep contributing. But there’s no need to bring old and outside resentments into play.
Kent

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:06:34 +0000

What’s this belief that you’re noxious.

By: Rich Villar

Rich Villar — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:12:02 +0000

Not to discourage you from posting links, Kent, but I would wager that yours would be a pretty popular blog, should you choose to start one. Just a thought.

By: Kent Johnson

Kent Johnson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:51:34 +0000

I don’t have a blog, and I’m not on any listservs (except this one!), so I hope it doesn’t seem obnoxious to post this link here–but since Linh mentions the book in his post above, and since it’s now available to be ordered, here is the Shearsman Books page for Homage to the Last Avant-Garde. It will be available through SPD quite soon, as well, if you want to wait for that.
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2008/johnson.html
Kent

By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:34:47 +0000

Wow, I just downloaded The Wastemaker. OK. Wow. Thanks for that link, Don.
I hold Miller personally responsible (along with Burroughs) for Bukowski, so no surprise I’d not heard of Porter in that context, but I see he also published many of the SF Wrens, so I don’t know how I missed him.
But Kent, really, you’re not fooling anyone with that interweb rube shtick — we all know you’re behind the lonelygirl15 hoax, er, “fiction.”
Smiley emoticons all around!

By: Don Share

Don Share — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:08:52 +0000

I'm so pleased that Bern Porter's name has come up! His books are marvelous - kudos to UbuWeb for creating a terrific resource to see some of his work. Click here.

By: Kent Johnson

Kent Johnson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:47:23 +0000

Michael,
You’d never heard of Bern Porter??
He was the first guy to publish Henry Miller, among lots of others.
What do they teach you guys at Chicago, anyway?
(I’d put in a winking face icon here, but I don’t know how to make those)
Kent

By: Rich Villar

Rich Villar — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:32:28 +0000

Mr. Dinh,
Love this list. Will set down to read some of them.
Don’t change a thing, even if the pundit(s) on Harriet raise hell about a narrow, unrepresentative slice of 30 writers. Let someone else teach…eh, whatever!

By: Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:26:32 +0000

Point taken, Linh — & thanks for this thought-provoking post. I had never heard of Bern Porter before, so now I have a new assignment, which makes me happy.