unexpected pynchon comparison

[Keith McMullen]

his poetry is really shocking to me

so much more emotional and intellectual substance than i expected

https://youtu.be/BxW4yFlLMlw



> On Oct 10, 2020, at 3:50 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Wow. That was a genuine eyebrow raiser.
> When I hoovered up RC's oeuvre a decade ago I felt a kind of
> resentment because clearly he had an outsized influence on every MFA
> writing grad of the last 20 years, and no one should be so responsible
> for so much middling porridge.
> Now I've come to understand just how much of an artisan he was,
> though, and reading the stuff he thought wasn't good enough to publish
> confirms it.
> 
>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 8:36 AM Keith McMullen via Pynchon-l
>> <pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>> 
>> “comical and ominous”
>> 
>>>> On Oct 10, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> welp, I confess to being surprised by that. i fully expected to hear TRP being compared to RC in exact opposition.
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