Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Book review of the month, already

Via  Bill Manhire,  Michael Robbins reviews Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, ed. by Paul Hoover, for Poetry Foundation. Key phrase:
the whole boatload of vacuous bullshit
Oh, you want more? How about:
This new realism is the old realism by now, institutionalized to such an extent that talk of its oppositional value is wishful thinking. Or, more precisely, it is ideology.
Or:
the soi-disant avant-garde has no monopoly on falsely describing a narrow-minded past
Or:
Anthologies necessarily break down as they approach the present, since it is impossible to judge the worth and durability of contemporary production.
Well, yes. As noted here previously.

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