Within the Margins
I'm taking a workshop at ColoState. We just read and discussed Truong Tran's most recent book, Within the Margins, which takes the idea of the poetry book as a series of ploughed fields and turns it into a road running from the first page to the last--more or less--from one democratic vista to the other. Tran's giving a reading at CSU Thursday night.
How else can the poem be conceived?
How else can the poem be conceived?
posted by Anonymous at 11:44 PM
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Why democratic vista? I think poetry can be almost an aristocratic imposing of one's will on the language. Here, do this serf, here, do another thing. It may be democratic in that it's available to other people, but what you're talking about is an imposition of order, almost a tyranny.
Hey, that's awesome that you get to take a workshop. Who is teaching it? Should I read Truong Tran? Is it non-linear? I'm going to look it up.
Matthew Cooperman is the teacher.
Tran's book is interesting, self-conscious but accessible. Here's a url to smaples of his writing:
http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_tran.html
don, yeah, but I think Tran is trying to do pomo Whitman.
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