tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post5713261684114842006..comments2024-02-22T15:48:50.427-08:00Comments on Poems and Poetics: Murat Nemet-Nejat: From “Questions of Accent” (What Is Then Accented Writing?)Jerome Rothenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14166931849293504537noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5593764226213882767.post-67123166226359807862012-11-14T20:26:41.795-08:002012-11-14T20:26:41.795-08:00Very interesting, Murat's comments on American...Very interesting, Murat's comments on American poets, I was going to say poetry, but then Murat says there is no line of descent really and so no poetic tradition per se of American poetry (Kenner somewhere says that modern American poetry is a literary genre unto itself, whatever he means by that, and I suspect he had Duncan in mind). I feel a little more justified, in a way, in saying that I canNOT stand Ashbery (could only read through Three Poems). I was told to read Tennis Court Oaths and found it to be gentrified Surrealism (I'm reminded of Spicer's quip that Surrealism is for those poets who cannot benefit by Surrealism).<br />I read some of Murat's expanded remarks--from the page we are directed to with the "elswhere" hyperlink--about Camus's The Stranger and found them spot on. I remember having to read l'Etranger as an undergrad and being totally disoriented in finding any meaning in it, especially when hit with those monikers of Existentialism pour soi and en soi and having an instructor who was merely there to teach "the language." Al Kover(t)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15136854640986914702noreply@blogger.com