Without the academy, as I poet I don't exist. I have almost no readership (thinkership) outside the academy. This is not a choice of mine: it's is a condition that preceded my arrival onto the writing scene, fostered by numerous cultural conditions in the States -- primarily by the precedent set by the warm reception of Language Poetry by the academy in the 80s. As a result, since then, innovative or experimental writing lives only in the academy.
I'm curious how this works with other ways of writing. Thoughts on your relationship to the academy?
Kenneth Goldsmith's writing has been called some of the most "exhaustive and beautiful collage work ...
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