A few weeks back, Ron Silliman devoted a six page (printed out) post slapping me on the wrist for not appreciating the poetry of Clark Coolidge. It seems that post has reveberated around the web. Read HERE for more. Find the small link among others under the first larger link list entitled 'A WDS Tribute to Silliman' for a take off on Silliman's original post. (Clark C is still coming up on the Silliman blog--see my links to right--in a post two days ago).
Is there some reason we are not allowed to not like Clark Coolidge?? Were I to say I didn't like green cars would there be such a rukus?
Pris
7 comments:
Well I don't like Coolidge and I don't like spiders and snakes and I don't like a lot of other poetics either.
didi
I know...to me, it's absurb to insist we all have the same taste--or be damned.
You don't like Coolidge!? OMG, and you call yourself a POET!?
Yeah, I don't like him either :)
Hey Erin
That makes three of us???
Hi Rae
Google him and you'll see the controversy. If you click on that link, the section quoted from his ninety something page missive is no joke. It comes from Coolidge's poem.
Also go to http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_ronsilliman_archive.html to see Silliman's blog archives.
(I can't make the comment create a hot link like in the main blog post)
Read June 6 and June 10, both about Coolidge (the earlier being the one directed to me..the comments in the earlier one are a book in themselves. The parady comment by the head of Boston Comment is as hilarious as the link on my blog.
Now aren't you glad you asked this question?:-)
Ron Silliman, if you happen to read this, plueeze, no more posts to me. I don't like Clark Coolidge. That's my personal choice, just like my underwear.
Rae
I'll email an answer.
Pris
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