Rae Armantrout in the New Yorker!
Startling occurrence: Rae Armantrout has a poem in the New Yorker! It is entitled "The Ether" and is on page 74 of the May 22, 2006 issue. It is a sensitive and mercurial piece. Can we now hope for a more varied presentation of American poetry from the magazine? Since so many "general" readers get their idea of poetry from the poems published in the New Yorker, it would be nice if it was more democratic, actually representative of the "scene."
posted by RodneyPhillips @ 7:16 AM
4 Comments:
Interesting....
:-/
Hey, I was doing a search for Armentrout's "The Ether", as I left my copy of The New Yorker at home today. Thought you might be interested in a parody of that poem on my online journal, Prodigal Sun.
Also, what "scene" are you wanting a better representation of? I would be hard pressed to find a poet who would concede there is one "scene". Does The New Yorker represent something other than the "scene?" Its just a curious thing to hear someone say.
Best,
Michael
My apologies to the poet for misspelling her name.
Notice the quotes around the word "scene"
Anything other than 25 poems a year by Eamon Grennan.
Lets say: Ron Silliman, Jane Cooper, Frances Richard, Caroline Crumpacker, Eileen Myles, Anselm Berrigan, Dan Beachy-Quick, poets like them.
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