“The goals of the critic of poetry,” says Charles Bernstein, “are to find and put forward poetry that has the most resonance, that transforms the art of poetry for the ever-transitory contemporary moment, that connects the work at hand to other works, historical and contemporary (no poem is a paradise or purgatory entire unto itself), and that articulates the work’s values and histories (real and imaginary) as particular and contestable rather than universal and assumed.” What do you think the role of the critic is?
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 19:43:40 +0000
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