Friday, July 01, 2005

Freed at last

Now revealed: The Secret Diary of a Prisoner in the Creative Writing Gulag.

Earlier: An analysis of the Freed Screed.

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Posted by at 12:14

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's hilarious! I love it! This upset you?! What, were you in her class?

A couple of years later I was writing bitchy satire about these same people. The students were awful - the profs mostly awful. They _would_ skim the NY Times Book Review and act like they'd read the books.

I could make fun of A.G---b--th all day long.

Now - as to what's productive as a teaching method - clearly this isn't (and isn't meant to be.) As a critic I am trying to praise the specifics of what's good and when I talk about what's bad to do it in general terms. But privately I'm scribbling down the snottiest, most sarcastic things about bad poetry. Something is lost when no one dares mock badness.

1:25 PM
Anonymous said...

Or am I being a moron and that was all you in hilarious parody of L.F.'s attitude? Heh!

1:28 PM
Archambeau said...

I ended my own blog entry about Freed by wondering why she keeps teaching, when it makes her so uneasy and makes her feel so vulnerable and guilty. Your explanation makes all of that perfectly clear to me -- thanks!

1:14 PM
King Wenclas said...

Note my remarks at www.kingwenclas.blogspot.com.
Some of us have known these programs were frauds for a long time.
(p.s. The lit-underground mops the stage with constipated "literary" writers-- as we'll prove July 16th in Philadelphia.)
Have a good day.

7:53 AM

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