Lumpy pudding
Judging a poem is like judging a pudding or a machine. One demands that it work. Poetry succeeds because all or most of what is said or implied is relevant; what is irrelevant has been excluded, like lumps from pudding and 'bugs' from machinery. (Wimsatt & Beardsley)
Here we celebrate the excluded, lumpy parts of the pudding!
Dec 29, 2011
8:00pm
Charles Olson: Bagatto
Olson’s nickname for his friend Cagli (who had a Guggenheim scholarship the same year Olson spent his composing a thesis on Melville) was ‘Il Bagatto’. Cagli taught him the workings of the Tarot, and several Tarot-themed poems went into their collaborative volume Y & X, 1948…
Corrado Cagli: Il Bagatto (The Magician), 1947 - oil on paper (private collection)
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