I wanted to become a football coach, so I enrolled in Cortland’s physical education program. Like Creeley and Oppenheimer, he would be a mentor to Then everyone else showed up, during my college days. It just so happened that Toor’sīrother worked alongside Oppenheimer in a Greenwich Village print shop. Greatest passion (mesmerized by what I was seeing on the page), also Creeley, Oppenheimer, the others-who came toĬortland to read and sit in on that workshop. He also gave Olson’s essay, “Projective Verse”-whose influence has been enormous, to put it mildly, since it first appeared in 1950-pride of place in the Poetics portion of the anthology. To create sections of his book, Allen devised the post-World War Two avant-garde “schools” readers now know of, which he named Black Mountain, New York School, San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, and so on.
Years later, I learned that Allen was guided by Olson, former Rector of Black Mountain College, in putting his book together. That same year, I first set eyes on Donald Allen’s game-changing anthology, The New American Poetry: 1945-1960, which had appeared five years earlier. I attended a creative writing workshop run by a Cortland professor, David Toor, in 1965.
Shortcoming has proven to be a strong sense of purpose. Precepts and writings of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Joel Oppenheimer, Paulīlackburn, Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan and others of their ilk. To attend a college in Cortland, New York, where I would come to absorb the My adolescent choice, before I could really have any idea of what I might do, For all my life as a working poet, now more than fifty years, I have been unable to appreciate a poem outside of the framework imparted to me when I was learning what poetry could be-when I realized I was serious about the vocation of poet.Įnsuing decades, I have viewed my own poetry as a poetry of accident-because of My sense of what a poem is, how it should work, how it might feel (its aesthetics)-all of this, my understanding of a poem, was determined when I was an adolescent who came into contact with a number of Black Mountain poets.
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