10-29-2023, 12:42 AM
The Introduction of the Outlaw Bible is a Redskin perspective. People don't use these words anymore, nor do they like to think in these terms, but the so-called Redskin poets do. Now the issue is framed differently. The Paleface poets were those who used Tradition, Forms, Tropes that were recognized from other poems, allusions to the Bible and Mythology, the cohesive Traditional and Academic continuity. The Redskin poets were wild and personal and used whatever subject matter was at hand, and some of them engaged with Literary Criticism from the point of view of someone who wanted to end the oppressive reign of the Academically Defined Poetry and Culture of the Times. This was starting in American Literary Journals in the 1950s.
Since then, more of what was then called Redskin Poetry has become acceptable by the so-called Academic Press. No one wants to be considered of the Paleface School. . . . There are those who write poetry and feel rejected by What Poetry Is SUPPOSED To BE, and they are what I'm referring to as a continuation of that Redskin/Paleface Debate.
If you ever look around at Poetry published today, there are both Varieties Published side by side with no conflict. You have fully accepted and even spawned Academic Poets using the gripes and rages and of the old Redskin School in their polished and celebrated writings.
You have the New Redskins watching University Professors giving Poetry Readings on YouTube in front of a Posh and Sophisticated Audience, the Professor Poets screaming obscenities against the Corrupt American Machine in no way different from what the New Redskins themselves are posting on their Blogs.
So the New Redskins turn to Philosophy. They sharpen their raging minds with grander intellectual weapons. They say: What does this guy on stage have that I don't have? Well, they have a career in Academia, and access to Events and Publishers and Like-Minded People who also take part in these things.
The New Redskins rage on the Internet, which is so full of raging Redskins that they are all drowning each other out. Meanwhile the old Redskins with Paleface Credentials have their more selective and small Academic Events that are what the American Public sees as the Poetry version of Celebrity and Success and Authority.
So, the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry is a subculture of arts getting each other's names out there through the lens of being Literary Outlaws. A Billy Jack of a Crowd before cult movies became fashionable and can be made by big "film" companies on Demand. Those in that book that didn't die too soon have enjoyed the recognition this subculture allowed them. And the New Redskins use that sort of poetry for inspiration. As they do Bukowski, which, funnily enough, the Outlaw Bible wasn't able to get the Rights to include.
And this shows the insistence on Cooperation in Culture today. The so-called Individual needs a whole Movement to be oneself if you want that sort of recognition.
All this Business about Genius and Self-Reliance isn't all that fashionable, or, rather, it's fashionable but never the fad. That's overemphasized in this Tell Time By What's Being Posted Aeon. This is the Era of Cringe. The Cry from the Heavens and the Hells and everywhere between is Diversity! Inclusion! Yet people don't feel that way. They must feel that way, they must feel included and that they are inclusive in regard to others, but they don't. The Era of Cringe is a world where everything is a Mirror. And all the Mirror sees are Creeps, Pervs, Stalkers, Racists, Social Justice Warriors, Colonialists, Aliens, Narcissists, Privilege, Cancelations, Weirdos, Attention Whores, Capitalists, Socialists, Mass Shooters, Skeevies, Junkies, Reactionaries, Fly Over Country, the Elite, etc.
Whether the Redskins and Palefaces and their crosspollinated Nation sees it or not, they have a richness of Tropes and Materials to engage with and new and old-fashioned ways. Genius only selects for the sake of Art. Everything in a Right place.
Since then, more of what was then called Redskin Poetry has become acceptable by the so-called Academic Press. No one wants to be considered of the Paleface School. . . . There are those who write poetry and feel rejected by What Poetry Is SUPPOSED To BE, and they are what I'm referring to as a continuation of that Redskin/Paleface Debate.
If you ever look around at Poetry published today, there are both Varieties Published side by side with no conflict. You have fully accepted and even spawned Academic Poets using the gripes and rages and of the old Redskin School in their polished and celebrated writings.
You have the New Redskins watching University Professors giving Poetry Readings on YouTube in front of a Posh and Sophisticated Audience, the Professor Poets screaming obscenities against the Corrupt American Machine in no way different from what the New Redskins themselves are posting on their Blogs.
So the New Redskins turn to Philosophy. They sharpen their raging minds with grander intellectual weapons. They say: What does this guy on stage have that I don't have? Well, they have a career in Academia, and access to Events and Publishers and Like-Minded People who also take part in these things.
The New Redskins rage on the Internet, which is so full of raging Redskins that they are all drowning each other out. Meanwhile the old Redskins with Paleface Credentials have their more selective and small Academic Events that are what the American Public sees as the Poetry version of Celebrity and Success and Authority.
So, the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry is a subculture of arts getting each other's names out there through the lens of being Literary Outlaws. A Billy Jack of a Crowd before cult movies became fashionable and can be made by big "film" companies on Demand. Those in that book that didn't die too soon have enjoyed the recognition this subculture allowed them. And the New Redskins use that sort of poetry for inspiration. As they do Bukowski, which, funnily enough, the Outlaw Bible wasn't able to get the Rights to include.
And this shows the insistence on Cooperation in Culture today. The so-called Individual needs a whole Movement to be oneself if you want that sort of recognition.
All this Business about Genius and Self-Reliance isn't all that fashionable, or, rather, it's fashionable but never the fad. That's overemphasized in this Tell Time By What's Being Posted Aeon. This is the Era of Cringe. The Cry from the Heavens and the Hells and everywhere between is Diversity! Inclusion! Yet people don't feel that way. They must feel that way, they must feel included and that they are inclusive in regard to others, but they don't. The Era of Cringe is a world where everything is a Mirror. And all the Mirror sees are Creeps, Pervs, Stalkers, Racists, Social Justice Warriors, Colonialists, Aliens, Narcissists, Privilege, Cancelations, Weirdos, Attention Whores, Capitalists, Socialists, Mass Shooters, Skeevies, Junkies, Reactionaries, Fly Over Country, the Elite, etc.
Whether the Redskins and Palefaces and their crosspollinated Nation sees it or not, they have a richness of Tropes and Materials to engage with and new and old-fashioned ways. Genius only selects for the sake of Art. Everything in a Right place.