Comments on: the false sun recordings http://www.constantcritic.com/joyelle_mcsweeney/the_false_sun_recordings/ Timely poetry reviews Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:52:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TZC http://www.constantcritic.com/joyelle_mcsweeney/the_false_sun_recordings/comment-page-1/#comment-52 TZC Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:47:00 +0000 http://www.constantcritic.test/joyelle_mcsweeney/the_false_sun_recordings#comment-52 I suggest Mr. Wagner's poems be given a literary Turing test alongside computer-generated poems. Some of these are decent (if passionless) and can be found at: <br> <br> www.kurzweilcyberart.com/poetry/rkcp_poetry_samples.php3 I suggest Mr. Wagner’s poems be given a literary Turing test alongside computer-generated poems. Some of these are decent (if passionless) and can be found at:

http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com/poetry/rkcp_poetry_samples.php3

]]> By: Spencer http://www.constantcritic.com/joyelle_mcsweeney/the_false_sun_recordings/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Spencer Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:53:00 +0000 http://www.constantcritic.test/joyelle_mcsweeney/the_false_sun_recordings#comment-51 "James Wagner is a traditionalist, and, unlike a New Formalist, he improves on tradition, and, unlike most of his peers out here in Po-Mo-land, he is not content to just dazzle us with some complicated formal rhumba or lurid me-first T-shirt. "<br> <br> As an acknowledged proponent of what might be the 'me-first T-shirt' (is this like a T-shirt that says 'look at me'?) I'm likely not objective on this, but....<br> <br> ...'improves on tradition'? On the formal tradition?<br> <br> To quote:<br> <br> The phantom vacuum of. Rain in the locative, the<br> Relaxing incisors. All bullets deprive the gold from<br> Sunning. The peach trees reach like a banker. [ . . . ]<br> <br> "This is an evocative description of relentless rain, rain that in its flaccid insistence is like “James Wagner is a traditionalist, and, unlike a New Formalist, he improves on tradition, and, unlike most of his peers out here in Po-Mo-land, he is not content to just dazzle us with some complicated formal rhumba or lurid me-first T-shirt. “

As an acknowledged proponent of what might be the ‘me-first T-shirt’ (is this like a T-shirt that says ‘look at me’?) I’m likely not objective on this, but….

…’improves on tradition’? On the formal tradition?

To quote:

The phantom vacuum of. Rain in the locative, the
Relaxing incisors. All bullets deprive the gold from
Sunning. The peach trees reach like a banker. [ . . . ]

“This is an evocative description of relentless rain, rain that in its flaccid insistence is like

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