of serious poetry. It is related, I know, to the globalization of "products" that have governments and manufacturers and oil suckers treating us as customers, whereas Ezra Pound, Charles Olson and Louis Dudek treated us as citizens. If you look in the pages where book reviews used to be, you will see a lot fewer pages and a lot more articles about some writer (not writing) winning a prize. [--George Bowering]from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: George Bowering, "Bullshit Artist": A poetics of attention
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