Face to face: a conversation with Alan Golding, Orchid Tierney, Bob Perelman and Ron Silliman

PennSound Podcasts

In Episode 45 of PennSound podcasts, Al Filreis convened an hourlong conversation with Alan Golding, Orchid Tierney, Bob Perelman, and Ron Silliman. They began by reflecting on Golding's 1995 book From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry twenty years later, beginning with a discussion about anthologies in the digital era, and soon talk shifted to Golding's assessment then of opposition to Language poets' anti-academic stance. Finally, the group discussed Golding's distinction between the Poundian long poem — mytho-informational — and Rachel Blau DuPlessis's Drafts.