The Genre of Silence. A One-Shot Review. Ed. J. Oppenheimer....
The Genre of Silence. A One-Shot Review. Ed. J. Oppenheimer. New York, The Poetry Project, 1967, 72,(24)p., photogr. ills. by i.a. JOE DANKOWSKI, orig. photogr. wr. by JOE DANKOWSKI.
- Sl. waterstained; sl. rubbed.
= SIGNED by the editor on title. Stand-alone literary magazine with contributions by i.a. Robert Creeley, Joel Sloman, Fred Dorn, Robert Kelly, Dan Clark, Scott Cohen, Anne Waldman, Clayton Eshleman, Jim Brodey and Ted Berrigan. "The title became more pertinent when we in the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery began to realize that no real purpose would be served by a glossy little magazine and that, in fact, we would serve ourselves and our hoped-for public much better by concentrating on a mimeographed magazine already in publication called THE WORLD, A New York City Literary Magazine. This then will be the first and last issue of THE GENRE OF SILENCE. The editor hopes that it is indeed to some extent a presentation of things they dont want us to write and also a measure of where good writing is today. It is not easy to produce a magazine in these circumstances i.e. when you are not sure why the money is being given at all. The tendency is to cop out to either side. One falls back then on the old and valid concept of the poet as gadfly and lets him bite where he will." (p.5). Clay and Phillips, p.278.
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The Genre of Silence. A One-Shot Review. Ed. J. Oppenheimer. New York, The Poetry Project, 1967, 72,(24)p., photogr. ills. by i.a. JOE DANKOWSKI, orig. photogr. wr. by JOE DANKOWSKI.
- Sl. waterstained; sl. rubbed.
= SIGNED by the editor on title. Stand-alone literary magazine with contributions by i.a. Robert Creeley, Joel Sloman, Fred Dorn, Robert Kelly, Dan Clark, Scott Cohen, Anne Waldman, Clayton Eshleman, Jim Brodey and Ted Berrigan. "The title became more pertinent when we in the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery began to realize that no real purpose would be served by a glossy little magazine and that, in fact, we would serve ourselves and our hoped-for public much better by concentrating on a mimeographed magazine already in publication called THE WORLD, A New York City Literary Magazine. This then will be the first and last issue of THE GENRE OF SILENCE. The editor hopes that it is indeed to some extent a presentation of things they dont want us to write and also a measure of where good writing is today. It is not easy to produce a magazine in these circumstances i.e. when you are not sure why the money is being given at all. The tendency is to cop out to either side. One falls back then on the old and valid concept of the poet as gadfly and lets him bite where he will." (p.5). Clay and Phillips, p.278.
