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Reading Sophie Robinson Through Frank O'Hara's ‘Ploop!’

“…This invitation might serve as a parodic commentary on outraged diction and radical form as stylized and inherently addictive poetic tics, a sly critique of Robinson's more overtly political poetry peers' insistence on affects of intensity or edginess to frame their politics. One thinks here of what David Nowell Smith referred to as Sean Bonney's "lyric outrage," 43 or Keston Sutherland's efforts to transgress the boundaries between the personal and the political in poems such as his "Ode: What You Do," 44 or Andrea Brady's verse-essay Wildfire that serves in part to condemn the use of white phosphorus by American invading forces to assault the inhabitants of Fallujah, Iraq. 45 "Vein" of course is also a homophone of vain and speaks back to my earlier point that links Robinson's poetry to Pound's "Canto 81."…”