Circling the Canon, Volume I by Perloff Marjorie;Bayot David Jonathan;

Author:Perloff, Marjorie;Bayot, David Jonathan; [Perloff, Marjorie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2021-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Review of Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael, by Paul Christensen; Charles Olson: The Scholar’s Art, by Robert von Hallberg; and Olson’s Push: Origin, Black Mountain and Recent American Poetry, by Sherman Paul. Criticism 21, no. 3 (Summer 1979): 251–60.

CHAPTER 18

Poetic Artifice

The author of this book died in 1975 at the age of twenty-seven. At the time of her death, she had already published two volumes of poems and a number of important essays on avant-garde poetry; she had also completed the ambitious study under review here. To call Veronica Forrest-Thomson a gifted young critic would be an understatement; her ability to discern value and its absence in the work of her contemporaries is, as I shall argue, often quite startling. Nevertheless, Poetic Artifice is not quite a satisfactory book; it suffers from an unnecessarily rigid theoretical frame, a frame, one suspects, that Forrest-Thomson adopts, consciously or unconsciously, as a defense of the Neo-Dada enigma poetry she and such kindred spirits as John Ashbery and J. H. Prynne were writing in the late sixties. Let us begin with the theory. Here is Forrest-Thomson’s opening paragraph:

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