Where Are They Now? Lost Poets of the 70s: Elton's Meat
Mmmmm... Oh Elton! What a fine feast thou hast for us! Your "meal piece" makes my mouth dribble! And you look like such a sweet boy. Sure, Sam Cornish could have kicked your ass, and Mark Strand got more action, but you are the Lost Poet of the 70s who we would vote "Most Likely to Star as an Extra on the Brady Bunch." And your poem? I'll let our fearless snarkers decide in the comments section of this post.
posted by Snark @ 12:17 PM
12 Comments:
I think we should all encourage more poems about meat to be written; it's really probably THE most underrepresented subject in American poetry today . . . .
We meet at last, Elton Glaser!
Looks like Elton "Medium Rare" Glaser is still around -- check out the link below.
http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/glatrodep.htm
What others have said about Mr. Glaser:
"There's an awful lot of blood, mucus, urine, and semen dripping through these poems."
— American Book Review, from a review of "Tropical Depressions", the 1987 winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize.
Helen Vendler is still a troll.
Hey Snark, where are you getting these "Lost Poets" from? That anthology should be required reading.
I laughed, I cried, his poetry became a part of me.
I liked this one. It's the best lost poem so far. Just because an animal is dead, does not mean it has acquiesced to be devoured. Elton is cool with me.
" Hey Snark, where are you getting these 'Lost Poets' from? That anthology should be required reading."
Snark will reveal the anthology at the end of the series, which will be coming up fairly soon. I think I'm going to have a contest where whoever comes up with the best snark, receives the book in the mail from me. Such riches must be shared, of course... Stay tuned.
Snark,
This "Lost Poets" thing is amazing. Brutal. Lovely. Keep it up!
Monday Love
He looks a bit like Meatloaf,
another poet of the musical sphere who embraces meat.
Elton Glaser, a native of New Orleans, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and former director of The University of Akron Press, where he now edits the Akron Series in Poetry. Nearly five hundred of his poems and translations have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies such as Poetry, The Georgia Review, and The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry. He has published five full-length collections of poems: Relics (Wesleyan University Press, 1984), Tropical Depressions (University of Iowa Press, 1988), Color Photographs of the Ruins (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992), Winter Amnesties (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), and Pelican Tracks (Southern Illinois University Press). He coedited, with William Greenway, I Have My Own Song for It: Modern Poems of Ohio (University of Akron Press, 2002). Among his awards are two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, five fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Crab Orchard Award, and the Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize. In 1996, he was presented the Ohioana Poetry Award in recognition of his contributions to poetry as a teacher, publisher, and poet. His poems have appeared in the 1995, 1997, and 2000 editions of The Best American Poetry, and in Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry.
Not lost.
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