I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability… - James Laughlin
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability…
- James Laughlin
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot. - James Laughlin
[Gertrude Stein] really needed someone like Virgil Thomson, whom she respected, to sit on her a bit and make her devise some plot.
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds. - James Laughlin
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers hear the sounds.
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, … - James Laughlin
I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, …
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work o… - James Laughlin
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work o…
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this… - James Laughlin
Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this…
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an… - James Laughlin
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an…
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to b… - James Laughlin
With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to b…
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than … - James Laughlin
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than …
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