The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry by Adam Kirsch

Author:Adam Kirsch [Kirsch, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Classics, Essays, Non-Fiction, Literary Criticism, Poems, Poetry
ISBN: 9780393062717
Google: 3aetAAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0393062716
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

In the old days a good place to publish a poem was the Partisan Review. Heady—among those thick, heavy pages—one felt ranked by the rankers, a part of the move, a part of the proof—toward what? of what? To find out, you had to read countless Partisan Reviews. Then you would see what it was. You could be as serious as Delmore Schwartz, as serious as anyone who ever lived. He consistently turned down my poems.

Only against this particular poetic background does the dandyism of the early New York School poets make sense. Rather than be “as serious as anyone who ever lived,” Koch aspired to be a breath of “Fresh Air”—the title of his celebrated rant against the academic poetry of the 1950s:

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