Word: academicized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Throughout the fifties, sixties, and early seventies, these and many other poets flooded New York City to form the community that may rightly be called America's last avant-garde. Decidedly unconventional and anti-academic, they stapled together 8 1/2 inch by 11 copies of their own poems in dingy...
The very notion of "good" writing is a subjective one and a perennial problem for "avant-garde" writers who generally receive little outside approval of their work. Even Ashbery's ascent to the ranks of "academic poetry" was-and still is-something of a mystery to his underground contemporaries. "Ashbery...
Indeed, Ashbery's poetry remains recalcitrant even to his most celebratory of academic reviewers. John Shoptaw, one of Ashbery's foremost critics, has defined Ashbery's style as a "poetics of indeterminacy"-a euphemism, perhaps, for the poetry's intimidating lack of structural or thematic unity.
"How did anti-academic poetry find its way into the academy?" Fagin asks. "At a reading a couple of weeks ago I was listening to the trip John was taking people on in his works wondering what the hell they were getting out of it. And I asked John, "how...
Yet that's not to say that Ashbery isn't a good poet, North asserts; it's just that critics miss the mark when analyzing his work. "They're not interested in any of the early stuff we all love," North explains, "like The Tennis Court Oath." The 1962 collection...