SofaGeorge said:
I've read most of what Ted has written. He was one of my favorite people in the world. I think if you had had the chance to meet him as friend or student you may have felt the same way. He was brilliant, charismatic, and had a genuine gift as a writer.
http://ann.skea.com/THHome.htm
My favorite collection by Ted is CROW. His work is widely recognized at this time.
Elizabeth Wurtzel on the other hand is basically talentless. I'm sort of lost as why you consider her a mentionable critic.
Touche.
Though the Wurtzel mention was me being silly. However, I do occasionally like to read about Amy Fisher during my geeky pontification on modernism. I suppose I'm biased towards stronger women, because Ted was such a jerk, and she wrought out an existence based on him. I feel pretty stupid talking about her, because I don't have much biographical information on her, and I don't like to talk out of my ass. Bipolar disorder is indeed very serious, but I also believe that, especially for women, Sylvia Plath is held up as some kind of ideal, when I find her very weak. Yes, mental illness is not weakness, but for her to be some kind of representative of women in literature is, for me, a bit insulting.
I prefer Broido, and nobody ever agrees with me.
compare,
"A small white soul is waving, a small white maggot.
My limbs, also, have left me.
Who has dismembered us?
The dark is melting. We touch like cripples."
With
(ok, ok, I have to go look this one up)
"Everyone knows an unworshipped woman will betray you.
There is always this promise, I like that. Kingdom of Kinesis.
Kingdom of Benevolent. I will betray as a god betrays,
With tenderheartedness. I've got this mystic streak in me"
I just think some are better. Maybe I'm bitter. Don't hate me, I'm just an undergrad...
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