{"id":9163,"date":"2012-10-06T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9163"},"modified":"2012-10-06T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:45:04","slug":"american-hybrid-on-reality-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/american-hybrid-on-reality-street\/","title":{"rendered":"American Hybrid on Reality Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A week or so ago I posted a link to Peter Riley’s review of the American\u00a0Hybrid<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0anthology\u00a0[here<\/a>] in the Fortnightly Review<\/em>; poet & publisher Ken Edwards has just published a piece on this review & anthology on his Reality Street<\/a> site, which begins as follows:<\/p>\n

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Is it all over?<\/a><\/h2>\n
Posted by Ken Edwards on Friday, October 5, 2012 Under: writing<\/a><\/div>\n
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Peter Riley, in his\u00a0always interesting regular slot for\u00a0<\/a>The Fortnightly Review<\/em><\/a>, has been sounding off about a new Norton poetry anthology,\u00a0American Hybrid<\/a><\/em>, edited by Cole Swensen and David St John.<\/div>\n
Well, his piece is not really about this particular book, which was merely the trigger for a lot of stuff Peter has been wanting to get off his chest. Those who know him or his critical writing will recognise some familiar themes \u2013 but this publication has really got his goat and set him off on a particularly lengthy rant. And now his piece has in turn set me off.<\/div>\n
Though I don’t really know where to begin.<\/div>\n
OK, let’s start with Swensen’s and St John’s anthology, which I haven’t read and haven’t even seen. The online blurb says it “focuses on the new poem \u2013 the hybrid \u2013 a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles”. The idea is that the division between experimental and traditional in American poetry is disappearing as poets adopt a variety of techniques and forms. The anthology aims to demonstrate this thesis with a selection of more than 70 poets \u2013 the range is from Jorie Graham to Lyn Hejinian \u2013 who exhibit “hybrid approaches”.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
What is interesting about this is that it’s a Norton anthology, which means it’s a product aimed at the academic\/educational market, which means someone at Norton thinks it’s saleable in that market.The notion that there is a body of poets who fail to fall neatly into either of two camps and therefore constitute a third category strikes me as either a truism or an extremely debatable and misleading marketing ploy \u2013 depending on how you choose to look at it.<\/div>\n
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