Mr. Harmon Returns from One Place to Another

The post-avant and getting your arm cut off.

August 14, 2011

1. Videos of Hal Sirowitz:

1. Blog post by Ron Silliman about Joe Wenderoth’s poem, “Twentieth Century Pleasures”.

   There were a lot of interesting comments on this post. They vanished, but this other guy copied all of the comments onto his own blog.

   Here’s the post I wrote in kind-of-response.

   Wow, it’s blowing my mind that this was all almost three years ago.

2. Blog post from 2008 by Reginald Shepherd on “Post-Avant”.

   I particularly like this bit: “As poet and editor Rebecca Wolff writes of her journal Fence, a home of the post-avant, such writing ‘intentionally blurs the distinction between “difficulty” and “accessibility,” preferring instead to address a continuum of utterance.’” I like the idea of addressing a continuum of utterance. The list of established and emerging poets that he identifies as comprising the post-avant movement is interesting too.

3. Here’s Shepherd’s blog, by the way. The man was horribly intelligent.

And now, Mark Sultan:

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