Via Ron Silliman's blog (look to the right), a link to a whole bunch of people closely reading the sublimely challenging poems of J.H. Prynne. I find myself captivated by some of the poems, especially the work from the 60s and 70s, but am hard-pressed to explain either the poems or my interest in them. There is something genuine, a searching intellectual project taking shape in the selection and juxtaposition of phrases, an excavation of value in an examination of the linguistic means in which we limn it. Check it out.
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