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Another neophobe motto: Things are just fine the way they are.
SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2010
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Another neophobe motto: Things are just fine the way they are.
SFGate: Top News Stories Jon Carroll 2010
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Maps that the economic downturn could end the "myth of the hopelessly romantic neophobe artiste" and leave "driven eccentrics" to experiment with new ideas.
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Perhaps a good case study can be found in Ron Silliman’s critique of Charles Simic’s recent judgments of Robert Creeley’s collected work; Silliman sees Simic as a “neophobe,” but by the criteria above, Creeley – who was about as far from underestimated as a poet can hope to be – cannot qualify as “avant garde.”
Writing and Failure (Part 5) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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