Re: here's what he meant
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0600 (MDT)
Matt's experience and mine seem quite similar (we even teach composition
with guilt and awareness that our insitutions have built in "phoniness"!)
in that we have become aware that many of lit's poets wrote crit and that
some of our critics also have put their shoulders to the poetry
grindstone. To be honest I don't dig genre for the divisions it creates.
I think writers shoot out sparks and genre is about where they catch on
best but not the burning itself.
If anyone is curious I have a short (holdenesque?) essay hopefully playing
with genre and baseball in ways that may amuse you and perhaps
even in ways that echo some of Matt's fine thinking...("Beyond Exception:
The Writers Life" in _The Salt River
Review_, Vol. 1,
No.1, Winter l997-98,
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/users/cervantes/SRR/hochman.html)
will