The Anthologist: A Novel

‘The Anthologist’: Pure pleasure in a novel about poetry

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He keeps us in suspense.

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His idea of a line having an upbeat is exactly right. But soon we realise his ear favours a line with four beats in it rather than five. He looks at the lyrics of some recent hip-hop and club anthems to make his point. He blames Chaucer for introducing pentameter from French writers. But Chowder ignores dramatic verse completely and only mentions Milton once, without considering what that king of enjambement was up to. A god of small things. And another thing, Chowder: you have an exquisite ear for analysing verse and for explaining its purely musical effects.

I like the way you invent tunes for them, too. The tunes, by the way, are peculiar and unsingable, but even that helps show how the music of the poetry lies in the words themselves, as spoken. But you do commit that most forgivable of crimes, which is to let the music of the language get in the way of what that language is actually saying.

You even have a fetishistic way of dwelling on syllables.

S Merwin, but is his very name really so beautiful? Still, people will like Paul, and will surely want to pick up a copy of his anthology, to be called Only Rhyme. Plenty of poetry anthology reviewers will hate it, but I can assure them that Paul is a lovely chap with only a few anti-social habits. Love puzzles? Get the best at Telegraph Puzzles. Books on Amazon. A collection of the best contributions and reports from the Telegraph focussing on the key events, decisions and moments in Churchill's life. This book tells the story of the men and women of Fighter Command who worked tirelessly in air bases scattered throughout Britain to thwart the Nazis.

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The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker

It became twisty and broken and chanting and dense and loose and all kinds of things—in reaction to the flood of rhyme in movie musicals and on records. Before the songwriters there was Swinburne. Paul feels Swinburne was an overfertilizing force.

Too much chiming genius. Poe has got to be the most lyrical of all the 19th-century lyrical poets. I think it was Alice Corbin Henderson in Poetry, way back when, who first wrote about that phenomenon: Poe in French translation fueled Modernism in English. NB: Yes, poetry taught me to write prose. So I felt that I could recover from the shock. Vorticism was just a slavish imitation of Futurism. They wanted to take the next step and prove they were even crueler and harder.

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NB: And in some ways the question about the violent beginnings of Modernism is answered directly, because during the war Ezra Pound went even further off the deep end than Marinetti ever had. Is it the energy to make new, or is it simply the desire to break? A really good poem makes its case without making its case.

She just bends over the fish and looks it in the eye and then lets it go. Her description of what happened is just one description. Those are the two antipodes of Modernism, I think: manifestoes versus letters. A letter is anchored in a single day and is to a particular person and is not attempting to change anything.

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He is the author of a chapbook of poems, Dinner Milk Machine, I'd like to read this novel. I like Nicholson Baker. I quit writing poetry for roughly one year although I'm not sure it did me any good. An interesting interview, however it seems to me that it treats poetry as if it is part of the elite process. There is too much poetry being written? Ah, there isn't enough.

This world needs more, more and still more. Perhaps, I should explain that I am deaf. I don't hear the meter and rhyme and I don't care. Maybe, that is why I can't memorize poems, but I have books and I often carry them on pieces of paper or in my journal. I love free verse because of my deafness for all poetry is free verse to me. I write it too although I rarely send it out. I like my own stuff. I love other poets and love this site and the journal.

I love reading students' poems especially when it is poems they really care about. Like Mr. Baker, some poems make me happier than others; but I don't want anyone to stop writing. Never, never Poems, good or bad, mediocre for some , great, sad, happy, whatever make this world so much better. I thought your comment was very beautiful.

I think memorability is the mark of great poetry, but there are as many ways of remembering as their are ways of writing. Maybe Mr Baker would like to follow Hardy's trail and write great poetry late in life. This sounds like a lot of fun. I'm going to get this book. There's also a recent short novel by Forrest Gander, already translated into a bunch of languages [As a Friend, New Directions, ], whose central character is a poet. And there are Bolano's recently released novels in English, of course, though the poets therein don't have much in common with this Chowder character, from the sounds of it!

And this recent spate of movies about poets, too And Ashbery on MTV, and so on. I mean, before we know it, it will actually be cool to be a poet. Good to keep that in mind, I think. It was nice of you to respond. I have never liked Thomas Hardy, the novelist all that much. Maybe it was his novel, "Jude the Obscene".

It is the only novel I wish I never read. However, as a poet I have always enjoyed his poems. This site has a nice collection. You are right about the reference. The protagonist is a poet who lives for his art. It was a very refreshing read. What I like best best about Bolano is his absolute zest and passion for poetry. It shows in his book. It is a shame he died so young. It would seem that the poet as a hero seems to be making a come-back in our culture at least on the world stage.

Why the mental struggle with this poet vs. Read what you find enjoyable and allow the others to be read and appreciated by others. If one prefers apples, don't bother the oranges. However, it's not fair to judge the orange without trying it. I have found that taste buds change from time to time. I enjoy a good critique but not harsh criticism. I think the author sells his protagonist short by calling him an amateur. I have just read the novel and found it a great "introduction" to the topic of rhyme in poetry indeed!

I hope Gene leaves it alone. I think because the "author" is struggling with his ideas about poetry, about poetry in our culture, and about problems with academic discussion all at once, he has to present it as "free prose" rather than a tightly argued paper. Makes you think about form. I enjoyed. I enjoyed "the Anthologist " very much.

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