Sign in with Facebook
Radical Artifice Quotes
Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
by
Marjorie Perloff84 ratings, 3.95 average rating, 7 reviews
Radical Artifice Quotes
Showing 1-1 of 1
“(About "Black Debt" by Steve McCaffery)
'Impersonal' as this text is, it is by no means unemotional or uninvolved. We learn nothing-- at least nothing direct-- about McCaffery's (or his narrator's) personal life, his opinions or ruminations. Nonetheless I would posit that 'Lag' projects a highly particularized way of looking at things, of processing the most diversified information fields-- geology and genetics, archeology and advertising, classics and commercials-- that is finally recognizable in its particular ways of negotiating with language as is the more personal lyric consciousness we expect to find in poetry.”
― Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
'Impersonal' as this text is, it is by no means unemotional or uninvolved. We learn nothing-- at least nothing direct-- about McCaffery's (or his narrator's) personal life, his opinions or ruminations. Nonetheless I would posit that 'Lag' projects a highly particularized way of looking at things, of processing the most diversified information fields-- geology and genetics, archeology and advertising, classics and commercials-- that is finally recognizable in its particular ways of negotiating with language as is the more personal lyric consciousness we expect to find in poetry.”
― Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
