Saturday, April 17, 2021

LARRY EIGNER ~


"Briggflatts is a poem: it needs no explanation" 

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I enjoy any book by or about

L A R R Y      E I G N E R

including by academics going on & on



in the long run it seems where

the outsiders —

and Eigner was one,

like Philip Whalen —

will be rescued and petted

by the academic Red Cross

but perhaps keep in mind

what John Berryman

once wrote to Ezra Pound 

then residing in St. Elizabeth's Hospital

far from the academy,

"Thirty years ago the

("intellectual") public knew nothing,

at present it is only too damned

apparently familiar with every-

thing — among others, with all

of you. . . There is a whole school

of now-academic criticism

to be broken down also (Ransom,

Winters Tate Blackmur Warren), which I

am convinced is stifling talent."

John Berryman 1947


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New Mexico, 2020




"Let the incidents and images take care of themselves"

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