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More on poets singing, or popularity breeds contempt. Clover on a poetry panel at the MLA:What was lacking was the promised “Poets in Debate”: clear and eloquent presentations were undercut by the certainty that no one in the room favored Neo-Liberalism or state discipline, and that everyone would be voting Democratic at the earliest opportunity. The only disagreement arose when one audience member suggested that the poem might have to debase itself and consider the pop song’s success if it aspired to cultural relevance; panelist Joan Retallack was having none of it, proud to make anti-commodities. The fight was taken up by several others, a dispute marred only by the fact that all parties were united by their perfect contempt for the pop song itself. And so the finest of the modern languages was cast down.At the Bridge Street soirée, I learned that Clover changed his name once before. Imprimis: he was a Kaplan, then a Clover, now a Dark. |
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