modernism in one easy lesson
The modernist critic Guy Davenport, writing to James Laughlin of New Directions (undated):
"Speaking of Columbus, I've explained the colon that begins Paterson* all sorts of ways (Europe: America) until it dawned on my feeble mind that Cristobal Colon is the gentleman's real name. Keeping to the formula pater: son."
*William Carlos' Williams' seminal poem
4 comments:
Very nice indeed.
I've just got in baroque, after a night on the razz, so erm..you is the bluddy wo/men yeah...who gives a toss what we write, for you - as lonmg as you dance - is being the wo/men yeah..ms baroque Oh you is the one..what's happening tinight wiv poetry?
You is the bluddy wo/men, Baroque. Yeah. Who cares about the modernist use of a colon when you can jump on the table and give us a quick Charleston?
What do you mean, not in your condition? Dance, dammit, dance. The future of poetry could be at stake here.
Jx
Quink, glad you like it! I thought I might be the only one.
Desmond I can't tell if you like it or don't like it. You're sort of getting in Ovid Yeats mode...
Jane, we're both witches, anyway, so I guess I can do as I bluddy like!
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