A Big Win For Experimental Poetry
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/a-big-win-for-experimenta_b_365671.html
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If you read a review of Keith Waldrop's "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy," this year's winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, there's a good chance it will include the word "postmodern" or "avant-garde." These are terms that put a lot of readers on guard, signaling experimental verse. And it only takes a glance at "Transcendental Studies" to see that Waldrop's poetry isn't the sort that will ever turn up in a hallmark card.
In an interview with the website The Jivin' Ladybug (we really are in avant-garde territory here) Waldrop suggested that poetry is "having nothing to say and saying it," explaining, "In my work you could find statements here and there. It isn't what I'm writing for. What I'm after is closer to music than to philosophy or information in that sense." And that aim can be confusing for a reader expecting a poem to make sense in a more traditional manner
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/a-big-win-for-experimenta_b_365671.h...
In an interview with the website The Jivin' Ladybug (we really are in avant-garde territory here) Waldrop suggested that poetry is "having nothing to say and saying it," explaining, "In my work you could find statements here and there. It isn't what I'm writing for. What I'm after is closer to music than to philosophy or information in that sense." And that aim can be confusing for a reader expecting a poem to make sense in a more traditional manner
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/a-big-win-for-experimenta_b_365671.h...
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