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Poetry live and on the page. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: I am amazed that you should have published such a muddleheaded piece of work as Patrick McCauley's "The Dreadful Orthodoxy" (September 2002).
In defending what he sees as an unfairly ignored live poetry scene, McCauley makes an anti-intellectual and misogynistic argument marked by an aggressive innocence of any real knowledge. He draws his guns against an exclusionary "academic literati", of which it appears I am a member. I can seldom use my complete lack of academic credentials as an asset, but here I may be able to. McCauley is also clearly unfamiliar with my work. My milieu, surprisingly perhaps for one who reportedly writes only "for the page", is ...
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