Posted by Sigismund on January 10, 2010, at 17:52:45
In reply to Re: framework for trauma / grief?, posted by floatingbridge on January 10, 2010, at 15:15:00
>Early on I searched for a father figure in poetry. None in the modernists. George Oppen comes close--but I think he's an.objectivist or something like that.
I've never heard of George Oppen. I did read something about Robert Frost's attitude to slavery that pulled me up. I'll have to remember Oppen and look him up.
On the subject of TV, I'd thought the anglosphere was completely clapped out...that the domination of corporate interests was so complete that the best we could hope for was to be spoonfed with soundbites. And then along comes "The Wire" (which I imagine everyone in North America knows about) set in Baltimore, written with so much humanity, awareness, love of language and sympathy generally. We watch it with the subtitles on because so much of the slang is foreign to us. The African-American slang is amazing.
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