Clearly I misread. It can't be that the James Laughlin award has been given to the execrable Michael Dickman? The award named for the founder and lifelong director of New Directions, the press that brought real experimental and interesting poetry (and other stuff) to American audiences? Must have been the Laugh Line Award instead. You know, for poems stuffed with knowing moments when the poet looks up from the page and all the hipster kids in the crowd laugh loudly to show they got the joke. Longer post coming soon.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Laugh Line Award?
Clearly I misread. It can't be that the James Laughlin award has been given to the execrable Michael Dickman? The award named for the founder and lifelong director of New Directions, the press that brought real experimental and interesting poetry (and other stuff) to American audiences? Must have been the Laugh Line Award instead. You know, for poems stuffed with knowing moments when the poet looks up from the page and all the hipster kids in the crowd laugh loudly to show they got the joke. Longer post coming soon.
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Oh goodie for the longer post. I've been waiting to hear someone who knows what he's talking about give a take on Dickman.
ReplyDeletesoon, dear doctor brown, soon. but first i gotta finish up a review (taking me too long because it's so arduous and unpleasant) of the worst volume of poetry i might ever have read.
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