Comments on: Josh Corey on the Post-Mainstream http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/02/08/josh-corey-on-the-post-mainstream/ Joseph Duemer's blog about reading, writing, politics, birds, food, & weather Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian Salchert http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/02/08/josh-corey-on-the-post-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-7146 Brian Salchert Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:54:15 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/02/08/josh-corey-on-the-post-mainstream/#comment-7146 First read Corey's "Post-Mainstream" last night, and it and the comments about it have my mind working on a response to it. Whatever one's reaction to essays by him, he definitely has a diamond mind. This is my first time here. I am retired, but have been more involved with poets and poetry the past 12 months than at any time since 1972, the year my days in official academia ended. You probably know Loren has recently been reading and writing about poems by Hayden Carruth. Thank you. First read Corey’s “Post-Mainstream” last night,
and it and the comments about it have my mind
working on a response to it. Whatever one’s
reaction to essays by him, he definitely has a
diamond mind.

This is my first time here. I am retired, but
have been more involved with poets and poetry
the past 12 months than at any time since 1972,
the year my days in official academia ended.

You probably know Loren has recently been
reading and writing about poems by
Hayden Carruth.

Thank you.

]]> By: jd http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/02/08/josh-corey-on-the-post-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-7124 jd Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:49:52 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/02/08/josh-corey-on-the-post-mainstream/#comment-7124 You talked with Carruth?! I'm jealous. He is my intellectual & poetic hero. I can't think of anyone I would rather emulate, despite the fact that I teach college for a living. You talked with Carruth?! I’m jealous. He is my intellectual & poetic hero. I can’t think of anyone I would rather emulate, despite the fact that I teach college for a living.

]]> By: albert geiser http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/02/08/josh-corey-on-the-post-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-7121 albert geiser Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:41:48 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/02/08/josh-corey-on-the-post-mainstream/#comment-7121 This posting of yours has launched me into some thought. I'll collect it all and post it later. Looks like it might be too late to post about it on Corey. I've deliberately put myself on the margin of academia my entire adult life. (One time over twenty years ago Hayden Carruth puffing on his pipe talked with me about writing outside academia, looking at the world outside academia. He mentioned a painting in a certain Greek restaurant on a shopping boulevard as a subject for a poem.) I've basically built my perspective out of the idea of looking at the extra academic world for sources. And this evolved for me into blending with the internet, internet related experience. (In one experience, beyond relationships I was randomly interviewed for a film, Synthetic Pleasures, while I was tapping on the keyboard of cafe internet terminal in the early 90s, which turned out to be a cult hit.) Now these on the margins ideas and experiences extend to the blogs... This posting of yours has launched me into some thought. I’ll collect it all and post it later. Looks like it might be too late to post about it on Corey.

I’ve deliberately put myself on the margin of academia my entire adult life. (One time over twenty years ago Hayden Carruth puffing on his pipe talked with me about writing outside academia, looking at the world outside academia. He mentioned a painting in a certain Greek restaurant on a shopping boulevard as a subject for a poem.) I’ve basically built my perspective out of the idea of looking at the extra academic world for sources. And this evolved for me into blending with the internet, internet related experience. (In one experience, beyond relationships I was randomly interviewed for a film, Synthetic Pleasures, while I was tapping on the keyboard of cafe internet terminal in the early 90s, which turned out to be a cult hit.) Now these on the margins ideas and experiences extend to the blogs…

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