Re: Time Magazine & Lit
Michael Sussman (qironzh@rocketmail.com)
Tue, 02 Jun 1998 15:57:07 -0700 (PDT)
I just glanced through it this afternoon and decided not to buy.
As it is, I am ignorant of the "world" though not of the West. And
even by Western standards it is a shallow crop.
Ralph Elison? Marquez? Auden? We know what their intention was in
choosing these. I was surprised not to find Maya Angelou too.
The fact is I love Yeats but he wasn't that influential. I don't like
Eliot that much and he was. I like Ezra Pound and he was at least as
influential as Eliot and didn't even figure on the list. Were they
measuring achievement or influence? Clearly not achievement. But they
did take influence into account: Joyce & Eliot. There is a measure of
fame that goes into influence: Ginsberg; Spielberg.
Since I'm no expert on prose, I'll just list 5 poets:
1) Antonin Artaud
2) Pound
3) cummings
4) John Berryman
5) Plath
Runners up include Cesar Vallejo and Dylan Thomas. The only 20C. prose
writers I recommend unequivocally are Kafka and Malcolm Lowry.
------Sussby
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