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Rethinking rethinking

By Harriet Staff

You have to be signed in to Facebook to read the whole thing, but here is a taste of Joshua Clover taking issue with a few issues at the Rethinking Poetics Conference at Columbia University :

I was invited here literally to complain — “what do you want to complain about in poetry” — and what I want to complain about, I mean rethink, is the hybrid. Specifically the “American Hybrid,” as it is currently being called. I want to unfold this problem dialectically, after a fashion. Or, I want to show how for me the problem — what needs to be rethought — itself unfolds dialectically. So I will begins where all dialectical thought begins — with Silliman’s Blog . . .

Comments (2)

  • On June 19, 2010 at 5:13 am Poet files #4 « Baroque in Hackney wrote:

    [...] a week when many people are asking “what poems are for,” “re-thinking” the significance of the art form, and contemplating its very sartorial role in contemporary [...]

  • On June 21, 2010 at 3:00 am what it says on the tin « Baroque in Hackney wrote:

    [...] post, in the week of the (Poetry) Election I’ve been thinking about all this re-thinking that’s going on. What poems are for? What do they do in the world? How do we know which ones [...]


Posted in Criticism, Education, Poetry News on Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 by Harriet Staff.

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